The Men Who, uhm, Stare At Goats, Sheep and Other Beasties.

The following rant is NFSW.

The Death March Of Serial Outrage that is the 2011-2012 legislative season continues with this tasty bit from the state of insanity that is Florida. It took just three tries for the Florida legislature to pass a law banning, you guessed it, sex between humans and animals.

This news is a bit mind-twisting in several ways.

Of course, how can anyone oppose such an worthy goal? Why did it take three tries to pass a law to save Bessie the Cow from human molestation? How could PETA face such enormous opposition in lobbying this through the FLA lege?

There is a second point to consider. This nation has far bigger problems than man-on-goat sex. Florida, like the rest of the United States, is in the grip of a severe economic downturn. Millions of people are unemployed and / or losing their homes to often fraudulent foreclosures. Woe, misery and despair stalk the land. The Great American Middle Class is being systematically destroyed bit by bit by a political and economic regime determined to wrest every last scintilla of monetary value from it before casting the drained carcass aside like an empty beer can. Decent jobs are fleeing the country. Nationally, we have a House majority that is willing to play financial doomsday "chicken" with the nation's debt ceiling to force passage of further draconian spending cuts. This same cabal wants to throw future senior citizens (like, well, almost all of us, eventually) to the wolves of the private medical insurance industry with Medicare vouchers and rob them of the benefit of a dignified retirement by killing Social Security.

Yet, with this plethora of unsolved issues and unaddressed problems, the state legislature and governor of Florida cannot be bothered to work on resolving, they could find the precious time to pass a law against bestiality.

And they wonder why people hold legislators in such low esteem.