Just when you thought wasteful government spending was porked-out, we learn that the National Institutes of Health are paying "researchers" $400,000 tax dollars to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk -- and just what can be done about it. According to Fox News:Doctors and specialists from the New York Psychiatric Institute are using the generous grant from NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to help tailor HIV prevention programs to work at bars and clubs.Though public health officials say that HIV/AIDS rates are higher in Washington, D.C., than in some parts of West Africa, U.S. government funds are going to help curb dangerous liaisons in Argentina's capital.The study began in September 2008, according to an online abstract, and has already cost taxpayers $198,776, NIH documents show."Targeting public venues in Buenos Aires where men meet, alcohol is consumed and sexual behavior...(Read Full Post)