I'm sure many of us were briefly roused from our platitude- and beer-induced comas last night by Bush's vow to ban the creation of "human-animal hybrids": "Say what???"
Visions of medieval chimeras clogged my head as I struggled to answer the pressing question, "What kind of animal-human hybrid is Bush?"
Only a moment's contemplation in a more sober state gave me a good-enough answer: he is clearly a snake with a smug politician's face, offering us the apple... "Eat of this, and you shall taste fear no more."
And, as in Milton's Paradise Lost, when we bite into it, the apple crumbles into ashes, because we are already in hell. We must be to deserve this presidency.
But I'm curious what others think.
Discovering our leader's animal part may be the arcane knowledge we need to "slay* the dragon" as it were.
*quotes enclose a metaphor. actual slaying not endorsed by this diarist