Listening to Obama’s faux-State of the Union address to both houses of Congress last night, detailing his wonky economic, education, and energy plans for the country, I couldn’t help wistfully remembering all the important stuff G.W.B. used to shout slogans about in his 19 eight unforgettable S.O.T.U.’s. E.g., remember his scary axis of evil, freedom cars, space missions to Mars (or were we supposed to build something on the moon? — I forget), and then W’s oh-so-crucial demand of the 109th Congress:
Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.
Human-animal hybrids? Seriously? Well, at least we had that infomercial salesman Bobby Jindal to entertain us.