Rather than finding a way out of the budget crisis, the Arizona Legislature is busy tackling a far more immediate threat to the state: human-animal hybrids.
A couple of weeks ago, lawmakers debated the merits of SB 1307, which would ban the creation of hybrids (so those hoping for new blue-skinned Avatar bodies will have to go elsewhere).
The bill moved through the Committee on Public Safety and Human Services for further consideration in a 4-3 vote on Feb. 17.
Here’s our favorite human-hybrid definition (italics ours):
“A nonhuman life form engineered so that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues.”
If it passes, the state will have a new entry in those books about weird laws that are still in effect: In Arizona it is illegal to put a human brain in a cow’s body.
Among the Tucson lawmakers saying no to goat-people: Rep. Frank Antenori, Rep, David Gowan, Sen. Al Melvin and Rep. David Stevens.
This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2010.
Yes folks, the G.O.P. has gone stark raving bonkers.
OK, these people need to be housed in some sort of institution. Antenori in particular seems to be so far removed from reality he is becoming a danger to himself and others. Is there some judge out there willing to sign the orders of commitment on these people?