16/04/2005

Bugs in the White House?!

According to this BBC story, some republican entomologists have come up with the fine idea of naming three kinds of slime mold bugs after the leaders of the free world, namely Agathidium bushi, Agathidium cheneyi and not to forget the unknowable Agathidium rumsfeldi.
Surely, this was well intended, but I question the responsibility of those scientists' action: Those poor bugs will never know why a large majority of the genus homo sapiens non-americanensis is suddenly turning so violently against them. Someone send in the exterminator already ...

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