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	<title><![CDATA[Brownback And Landrieu Introduce Bill To Ban Mermaids]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/brownback-and-landrieu-in_n_230762.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorists and repaired the economy and reversed all the bad unemployment trends, because how else could you explain the two of them introducing <a href="http://senatorsambrownback.blogspot.com/2009/07/brownback-landrieu-introduce-human.html">a law that would prohibit scientists from making mermaids and centaurs and Jersey devils and whatnot</a>? Other than to conclude: <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200907130001">these two senators are straight-up idiots</a>, I mean? Who can say? Anyway, having...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-08-13T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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