Palin was lying about the bridge to nowhere

[cinyc]

I like how they refer to Ketchikan as a city.

That's because it is a city.

By the way, it wasn't exactly a bridge to nowhere.  It was a bridge from downtown Ketchikan to an island of 50 residents with (more importantly) the city's airport.  Not worth building a bridge costing hundreds of millions of dollars - but if a bridge could be built for ten or twenty million, perhaps worthy.  The geography of the area probably wouldn't allow a cheaper alternative to be built, though.