The creator of the HBO hit series The Wire and now Treme is among 23 winners of the "genius" grants announced today by the MacArthur Foundation. The awards, granting $100,000 annually for 5 years with absolutely no strings attached, left David Simon with a "vague sense of guilt" for already being amply compensated in an industry that's "a little bit recession proof," he noted, reports MSNBC. But he plans to spend his bucks while working on a history of the CIA and a Yonkers housing desegregation fight, neither of which has the "best commercial outlook," he noted. Other winning scientists and artists Include: