For those of you worried that the massive chunk of the US budget given over to the military is being frittered away, heartening news! According to various sources, the Pentagon is currently working on developing remote controlled solar-powered cyborg beetle spies:

The Pentagon has funded a project at UC Berkley in which scientists have successfully grafted electrodes and tiny radio antennae to flying beetles—allowing researchers to steer the beetles by remote control.... According to robotics professor Noel Sharkey of UK's Sheffield University, there's not too much that the Pentagon could with the beetles right now. GPS systems or other tracking devices are too heavy and cumbersome to fit on beetles' backs. But he notes that the cyborg beetles could feasibly carry chemical weapons and could be effective assassins, though this would be highly illegal.

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Two thoughts:
1) WTF?
2) Is this what happens when kids raised on Disney grow up to work for the government? The last time I recall seeing a menacing cyborg beetle was in the first scene of Aladdin, when Jafar uses one to open the Cave of Wonders. (right?)
2a) In that case, when is the Pentagon going to get cracking on implanting Eddie Murphy voiceboxes into lizards?

Okay, that's it. Rather than watching the liveblog of the healthcare debate, I'm going to spend the rest of the day listening to "I'm Proud to Be an American."