That is one hot mule.

Alright. I always knew the American right wing / South was a bit off kilter. The Schaivo case, the gay rights position, abortion... something just aint right there. Now I know why. I really don't have to say a whole lot in terms of funny commentary here, it really writes itself...

From NewsHounds:

Last night, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program. The topic was an interesting one - whether or not an internet service provider should allow Horsley to post the names of abortion doctors on his website. Horsley does that as a way of targeting them and one doctor has been killed. In the course of the interview, however, Colmes asked Horsley about his background, including a statement that he had admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.

At first, Horsley laughed and said, "Just because it's printed in the media, people jump to believe it."

"Is it true?" Colmes asked.

"Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..."

AC: "You had sex with animals?"

NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."

AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."

NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?"

AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"

NH: "It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."

Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and "and I don't think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I'm saying?"

Horsley said, "You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You're naive. You know better than that... If it's warm and it's damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it."

Wow. Just wow. Like I said, commentary here is completely unessicary.

A better way

Everyone knows how traditional voting works. Every white man who owns at least 50 acres gets a vote, and for each slave they own, they get another 3/5ths of a vote. Simple enough.

Now, BC is voting in a couple of weeks on a new idea. Instead of the one person, one vote system that everyone has come to know and love, they'll be trying out the "single transferable vote" or STV system. In this, instead of choosing the candidate you overall like the best, you rank your three favourates. The point distribution system isn't clear yet. Its possible Your first choice gets 3 points, second gets 2 and third gets one. Or possibly, first gets 5, second 2, third 1. Something along those lines. The upshot in my mind however, would be a more accurate depition of the will of the voters. I dont see how, in a democratic system that's based around the ideal of best representing the will of the voting populace, an increase in information from the voters could possibly be a bad thing.

One arguement against this idea would be that it would overly complicate a system already plagued by low voter turnout. But it's not so complicated that someone couldnt grasp it and its merits after a 30 second TV spot, and there's the real possiblity that a new system would find new appeal with the voters. I'd say its worth a shot. Just think: had this system been in place for the US 2000 election, its a pretty safe bet that the Nader voters would have put Gore as their second choice, and Gore would have won easily (with an even greater popular majority than he got anyways). Go for it BC, I'd say this is the future of representative democracy.