No Mermaids for You!

1:40 PM The sphinx of Kansas weighs in

July 20, 2009

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1:40 PM -- Having masterminded the rescue of our disintegrating economy and successfully resolved the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. Senator Sam “Lobbyists are children of God, too” Brownback (R-Ucrazy?) feels the time has come for Congress to turn its attention to more pressing matters. His Official Website tells the chimerical tale:

  • U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today with Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009.

    “This legislation works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life,” said Brownback. “Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to be human and is a violation of human dignity and a grave injustice.”

    The Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act would ban the creation of human-animal hybrids...

    Brownback continued, “This legislation is both philosophical and practical...

Move over, Immanuel Kant.



As Sam once said: "I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about."

Like minotaurs.

Little known fact: Senator Brownback is, himself, half trout.

— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading

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