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April 14, 2005

The Legacy of the Bush Administration

No, it's not depleting our natural resources without searching for alternative renewable sources, or attempting to dismantle social security, or running up the biggest deficits in history.

They've got slime-mold beetles named after them!

"Three new beetles of the genus Agathidium have been named after members of the current administration: A. bushi, A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi.

Two former Cornell University entomologists, Quentin Wheeler and Kelly Miller, were in charge of naming 65 new species of slime-mold beetles, which they discovered while studying the insects’ evolution and classification."

Evolution??? Funny. These guys don't even believe in evolution, do they?

According to this article, slime beetles get their name because they feed on fungi-like molds. Like religious conservatives, corporate media and Halliburton maybe?