The confetti business...

Via way of Boing-Boing, here's a genuinely great chart about the Bush administration's skyrocketing shredding bill:

Federal Shredding Budget

Each rung of the chart is half a million dollars, and 2007's only measured to halfway through the year, meaning we can expect the incriminating-evidence-destruction budget to break that tricky $3 million barrier for the first time this year.