Neil Sinhababu, guest blogging for Kevin Drum over at Washington Monthly, notes the following:

<i>One of the more amusing results from the poll is that 25% of respondents supported giving animals the "exact same rights as people to be free of harm and exploitation." 55% of those respondents then said they didn't want to ban hunting. If we take their responses at face value and multiply, this means that over 10% of Americans support the hunting of humans. Who knew?</i>

The thing we never talk about is that every problem we face as a race and a species stems from one irrefutable but never-to-be-discussed source -- there are way too many people on the planet right now, and more coming all the time.

Nobody is volunteering to get off any time soon, either.

BHO has run very successfully on his 'Change You Can Believe In' slogan, and I remember very well the You Tube video that went around a few months back, where, set to the backround tune of David Bowie's 'Changes', every Presidential nominee for both parties spoke repeatedly and constantly about the need for 'change'.   Change is what we want, change is what we need, change is what we are bound and determined to enact.  Change, change, change.  The status quo has failed us, we want change.  It's the one thing that, apparently, we can ALL agree on.

Funny, though, how the 'change' we want seems to be entirely political, and largely confined to government circles.  We want our government to be less corrupt and more transparent, less intrusive and more respectful of our basic civil liberties, less aggressive and predatory abroad and more compassionate towards those who need our help, especially those we have done grievous wrongs to.  And we especially want our government to be less irresponsible in its fiscal policies, and considerably less servile towards the already rich and powerful, and more diligent in its responsibilities towards the working poor and the struggling middle class.

We want our GOVERNMENT to change, oh yes. 

But change apparently stops at the Potomac.  We the people do not want to have to change AT ALL.  We want to keep on driving gas guzzlers to Wal-Mart for low cost home furnishings and low cost electronics we can sit on and stare at to watch NASCAR and AMERICAN IDOL with.  We want to keep on consuming all our consumables and throwing their packaging into landfills, which in a couple of decades we'll have to build houses on for all the kids we insist on having. 

Looked at this way, I can easily see how hunting humans could indeed seem like a great idea -- to everyone in the Third World, anyway, always assuming, of course, that the humans are Americans.