Understanding the State of the Union, with your host, Dr. Von Badgerface

Okay, okay, okay. It's been about four hours since the address, and this is still getting my goat. Or man-goat, as the case may be. I understand that with all-time low approval ratings, Bush wants to appeal for bi-partisanship and can only speak in very vague and agreeable terms. America=good, evil=bad, and so on. Everybody claps, hooray. But in a speech that was so predicatable, one specific detail caught me entirely off-guard. From the transcript: "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research, human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids..."

Whoa, wait a sec, lil' shrub. We can do that? We have the technology? Forget the fact that he breezed over the faulty basis for leading us into a terrible situation in the middle east, forget the lack of apology for an inept response in New Orleans - clearly, the creation of human-animal hybrids is of enough concern to merit mention in the State of the Union address.

I'm honestly torn between being angry at him for including this, rather than other details, and being really excited that this could actually be going on. Prehensile tail, retractable claws and venom-spraying fangs here I come!

P.S. the above image constitutes an egregious use of Photoshop.

EDIT: Okay, I love the internet:
Posts that contain the phrase "human-animal hybrid" from Jan. 25-Jan. 30? Zero.
Posts that contain the phrase "human-animal hybrid" from Jan. 31 and after? 796 and counting.

And there's a T-shirt to match!