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The euthanization of Barbaro was carried out yesterday, and you would have thought another ex-president died, or worse a Hollywood actor. It strikes me as ridiculous that a horse’s death can lead a national news broadcast, especially when you consider that the other main stories were about Iraq (dozens of school children, several U.S. servicemen and many other innocents killed) and Iran (whack-job leader, potential nuclear weapons program, possible war). Please don’t misunderstand; I love animals often times more than their human neighbors, but to place the loss of a horse above so many other more important issues and tragedies is stupid. Of course, it is a window into the fragile star-addled psyche of the American public, but what the hell is wrong with everybody? I was rooting for Barbaro before he was pulled up by his mini-man, and I was pulling for him during his recovery, but to go all ga-ga in covering his death (on a national scale that is, his owners trainers and the vets who worked with him have every right to be sad) is just ridiculous and I won’t stand for it. I will end by saying shame on the news organizations, shame on the American public and shame on President Bush for leading us into an illegal and unwinnable war in Iraq…oops, ah hell I’ll keep it there.

P.S. I never knew that by euthanized they meant forcibly drowned.