Screaming Murder

Obama had just demonstrated he has great reflex, despite the late, late response to marriage equality but at least there's a sign now. While his "physical" reflex is impressive, it's fun to see people respond to the fly-swatting. Stephen Colbert's jar of flies is quite disgusting. Reminds me of Jeff Goldblum's horror flick The Fly.

It's sad to see how PETA is commenting on this trying to make themselves relevant while achieving the opposite effect. PETA: "We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals. We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals. Swatting a fly on TV indicates he's not perfect, and we're happy to say that we wish he hadn't." They sent a fly catcher to the White House, so future flies can be released to the wild unharmed.

Personally, I've bought some bug catchers a few years back when there was a leak in the building basement and there were hundreds of flies going around. So I guess I'm a mass murderer in some standards.