Many of us sit and ponder the leadership, or most accurately, the very lack therein, of today’s Republican Party. I mean, where in the hell are they going? Steele apologizes to Limbaugh, while Limbaugh sucks up to Palin, as McCain’s daughter is criticized by Mann Coulter, etc., and their supporters wait for them all to get into formation and start marching. Given their current state of disarray, the marching part ought to be even more entertaining. Eric Cantor seeing imaginary trains to Disneyland. The GOP wanting to rename OUR party, because they don’t have enough other things to do, like present a budget with actual numbers in it. Meanwhile, and as a result of this, their popularity is melting almost as fast as The Larsen B Ice Shelf. Everybody going their own way, bouncing off the walls and solid objects, as if…
And then I came across this headline: Parasitic Flies Being Used to Turn Insect Pests into Headless Zombies.
This seemed to explain it all. But I was deeply concerned that the party that most closely follows my own ideals of protecting things like individual freedoms, The Constitution, and the troops, might have gone the way of the neo-cons. Could it be that the republican’ts were victims of a dastardly liberal plot utilizing insects to make the cons an irrelevant entity? Nope. Seems that Texas has this ongoing problem with fire ants, costing the state over 1 billion each year in various assorted economic damages (there’s stimulus money for that too, Rick). The solution: the phorid fly, imported from South America. It lays its eggs on the fire ant, where they hatch and migrate to its brain, which they use for food. But the fire ant doesn’t die, not right away. It continues to walk around, without a brain to guide it, for 2 to 3 weeks. Bumping into things, getting in the way of the other fire ants, and occasionally making speeches about how we really need to return to the philosophies of Ronald Reagan.