A whole bucketful of awesome.

bananacasts:

wilwheaton:

For absurdity, how about those four Navy F-18s flying over the stadium - with its retractable roof closed? Everybody inside could only see the planes on the stadium’s video screens. It was strictly a two-second beauty shot. Know what it cost taxpayers? I’ll tell you: $450,000. (The Navy justifies the expense by saying it’s good for recruiting.)

Emphasis mine. It is disgusting and morally repugnant that the government will spend $450,000 on a stupid flyover that the people in the stadium can’t even see, while schools and libraries are having their budgets slashed all across America.

America is Rome. Congratulations.

Not that I want to play Devil’s advocate, because I don’t— because I agree it is a ridiculous waste— BUT…

One-hundred-eleven MILLION people watched the Super Bowl on TV. The flyover wasn’t for the people in the stadium.