Pork.

I had never really thought about the positive or negative aspects of pork-barrelling and ear-marking, so this article was interesting.
I was suprised that not much money was spent on universities - especially public ones. The whole reason an institution would be 'public' would be to receive funds from the government.
I want to see what an earmark would look like on a bill because I'm not really sure. It almost sounds like it's a completely different piece of legislation, just made for little secions of the country, like individual counties or something.