Meet The Beetles: Bush! Cheney! Rumsfeld!

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Bush is a microbrained insect who couldn’t care less about humanity and has a fondness for slime-molds.

It’s true!

The same goes for Cheney and Rumsfeld.

No! I haven’t been reading Daily Kos!

And I’m not talking about our nation’s esteemed leaders!

I’m talking about three new species of slime-mold beetles that have been named after our nation’s leaders.

And guess what: The gent who named them wasn’t trying to insult them but to honor them.

EXCERPT:

Wheeler, who is now head of entomology at the Natural History Museum in London, said that the choice to name beetles after President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was out of admiration for their principles, not because they look like the beetles.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

2 thoughts on “Meet The Beetles: Bush! Cheney! Rumsfeld!”

  1. Gary Larson got some sort of weevil named after him by an entomologist who was an admirer of his.
    You know, entomologists are quite underrepresented in popular film. It’s not like there is anything strange about dedicating one’s life to the habit of bugs. Oh wait, I guess there is. 🙂

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