The World Is Too Weird

Ever heard of "fainting goats"?

I'd never heard of them before this morning, when I read a comment that the media was acting like fainting goats over Obama's "bitter" comment. It was such an odd phrase that I had to look it up.

When startled, these small goats basically faint and fall down. The thing that kills me is this line from the wikipedia article:

In the past they were used for protecting livestock such as sheep by involuntarily "sacrificing themselves" to predators, allowing the sheep to escape.

For some reason that thought makes me sad.

The World Is Too Weird

Ever heard of "fainting goats"?

I'd never heard of them before this morning, when I read a comment that the media was acting like fainting goats over Obama's "bitter" comment. It was such an odd phrase that I had to look it up.

When startled, these small goats basically faint and fall down. The thing that kills me is this line from the wikipedia article:

In the past they were used for protecting livestock such as sheep by involuntarily "sacrificing themselves" to predators, allowing the sheep to escape.

For some reason that thought makes me sad.