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If it's Thanksgiving, it must be time for John McCain's annual rant about pork-barrel spending. (He used to crank up his attack long before the holidays, but that was back in the days when Congress, quaintly, actually passed spending bills before the fiscal year started.) Am I the only who's having increasing trouble working up righteous indignation about this stuff? At a time when we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq and adding multi-billions in new Medicare benefits to an already overstuffed entitlements budget, it's hard for me to get even mildly irritated that the House and Senate approved $50,000 to control wild hogs in Missouri.