1000 stories in the Naked City:

The electric utility in my home town got some government funding in the 1970′s. I don’t have the detailed objectives of the legislation but I have been told by the old-timers who climbed the poles that they were told to install transformers that weren’t connected to anything, certainly not an electrical grid. That lengthy list of programs distributed across sectors and geography – well – it’s the same smell test. Just bigger.

And more feel-good.