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4.18.2005

GOP: Now Smaller, Crunchier

If you're sick of the GOP, we have great news. The GOP now comes in a small, crunchy beetle form. The new slime-beetle model of the GOP comes from scientists Quintin Wheeler of the Natural History Museum in London and Kelly Miller of Brigham Young University who want to "honor" some GOP leaders.

Not just anybody can say he has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor. But George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld can.

Entomologists Quentin Wheeler and Kelly B. Miller, who recently had the task of naming 65 newly discovered species of slime-mold beetles, named three species after the president, vice president and defense secretary.

The monikers: Agathidium bushi Miller and Wheeler, Agathidium cheneyi Miller and Wheeler, and Agathidium rumsfeldi Miller and Wheeler.

I would have dung beetles after them.

CNN.com :: Bush has slime-mold beetle named after him

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