"he's the greatest dancer i've seen since baryshnikov or nureyev."

[rone]

I had this quote in my .signature some time ago:

[Ronald Reagan's] presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown.  After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity."  I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
        — G. B. Trudeau

Sadly, not only are people like that woman still around, they've gotten much, much worse.  I really hope this is the last i'll ever hear or read about that goddamn horse.

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[xtingu]

Make sure you don't fly on United any time soon. As part of their in-flight entertainment they had a piece on "that goddamn horse." They scrolled through images of cards, flowers and get-well-soon signs that people mailed to him.

SWEET WOUNDED JESUS, IT'S A HORSE.

(And yeah, I spent every summer as a kid on my aunt's horse farm. I think horses are pretty and special and neato and all that. But yo, pass the fucking glue already.)