{"id":656,"date":"2005-05-18T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=656"},"modified":"2005-05-18T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:27:26","slug":"a-last-word-on-neal-horsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/05\/18\/a-last-word-on-neal-horsley\/","title":{"rendered":"A Last Word on Neal Horsley"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hacket saying someone in class molested pig, forcing me to consider classmate committing beastiality. Disturbing!<\/i><\/p>\n

That’s what I wrote for my Senior Year High School year book for “most memorable moment”. To an extent, I was trying to outdo my brother, whose “Drank Jolt Cola, and was wired for the rest of the day”<\/i> garnered a comment to me a year from a student looking through old yearbooks. My comment stood out, and there appears to have been a bit of “iffyness” on the part of the Yearbook staff. For his part, my conversation with the teacher went like this. “That’s a pretty interesting ‘memorable moment’.” “Indeed.” (A few people post-graduate have read it, and commented “They let you write that?<\/i>“)<\/p>\n

The editing job on the passage confused me. They inserted a “to be” between “classmate” and “committing”. What that clarifies is beyond me, and further it seems to confuse matters: is the classmate a future classmate of mine? And, if they’re going to move the word-count past the 15 words that was imposed on me, why not stick a “Mr.” before “Hacket”?<\/p>\n

There really isn’t much of a story beyond those 15 words. I was taking an Auto Shop class (mostly a scheduling accident). I wasn’t paying attention to the teacher as he was talking about some prankery someone apparently had on FFA students (that’s “Future Farmers of America”). A student (his nakename wasn’t “Squirt”, though it might as well have been) made a wise-crack that I didn’t catch — and the teacher responded tersly with words that popped me to attention: “Molested a pig.”<\/i><\/p>\n

After a classroom of kids popped up to attention, and gave a “Wooah” reaction, we went to the shop, and that was the last I ever heard of anything. I regret not popping in by saying, “Define ‘molest’.”<\/p>\n

Horsley did not stress the “deliverance” from his poking Elsie, as much as he emphasised that everyone who lives on a Georgia farm engages in bestiality. I am sure the farmers of Georgia are none to pleased. He even went so far as to try and get Colmes to enjoin his behavior.<\/i><\/p>\n

I… guess… bestiality happens. (I note a comment spam I deleted today full of links to bestiality-related porn.) But to suggest that everyone on the farm is doing it offers up the basic problem with Horsley: he has a perverted view of what normal sinners are doing… and, mind you, I believe he loves the photos of bloody fetuses that he’s likely to wave around in a strangely sexual way. <\/p>\n

It’s easy to destroy the tired argument chimed in from the religious right (Neal Horsley on down to Senator Rick Santorum) that goes First Homosexuality, next Bestiality<\/a>. As children can’t consent, animals can’t either. I’m more head-strong on protecting the innocence of children than animals, I may as well admit, and I can envision a hyper-libertarian argument that… oh, never mind.<\/p>\n

As for Horsley’s further kvetching on the matter of “doing anything that moves” to include “a warm watermelon in the pasture” (or a location of creepy specificity)– it reminds me that there was a popular movie made a few years ago with a teenager having sex with a pie, which means … I guess masturbation into food happens somewhat regularly. But please don’t tell me about it. (I happen to hate Joe Matt’s comics.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hacket saying someone in class molested pig, forcing me to consider classmate committing beastiality. Disturbing! That’s what I wrote for my Senior Year High School year book for “most memorable moment”. To an extent, I was trying to outdo my brother, whose “Drank Jolt Cola, and was wired for the rest of the day” garnered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}