Bo Derek and Willie Nelson, Horses of a Different Color
That lunatic fringe that we call the House of Representatives just passed a bill that prevents ‘horse slaughter.’ 263 to 146 they bravely put their ‘aye’ votes out there for horses. Darfur, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq are slaughter-houses of a kind they seem unable to handle.
Bo Derek is the lady who defined ’10,’ in a movie of the same name decades ago. Willie Nelson has defined whole landslides of things but ‘10’ wasn’t among them. Yeah, she's kind of a palomino and Willie's a grizzled old work horse.
I have great respect for Willie, have seen him numerous times in concert and respect his uphill battles as well, from Kinky Friedman to FarmAid.
But he’s wrong about horse slaughter and so is Bo.
Which didn’t stop that lunatic fringe that we call the House of Representatives from passing a bill that prevents ‘horse slaughter.’ 263 to 146 they bravely put their ‘aye’ votes out there for horses. Darfur, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq are slaughter-houses of a kind they seem unable to handle.