  Shame on Bush for ignoring the key questions of his administration by retreating to the "high ground" of the gay marriage "issue. " So what if it is a moral, not executive, query? So what if mechanisms exist that make this squarely a states' rights question? If it will turn out the rabid in November, it's his baby. If it provides a little ground cover for those pesky WMD and basic honesty issues, all the better.
But while the Bush legions fret about When Harry Met Hairy, our nation is struggling with real challenges. Just this week, a bipartisan coalition was formed in in Fitzgerald, Georgia to bring together warring factions in the great wild chicken debate. Poultry-with-attitude roam their streets in squawking, screeeching packs, tearing up gardens, eating bugs and otherwise doing as they please. Hardly the banal bantam, these currently protected mobs are a hybrid of red junglefowl (brought from Southeast Asia in the 60s as possible local game birds) and the indigenous cock-a-doodle doo population. For those unfamiliar with South Georgia, killing quail is huge business here. Elite hunting lodges and private leases have provided bird-blasting amusement for generations of Southern gentry.
They have inadvertantly created bad-ass birds impervious to the need for human support to survive, in fact, thrive. According to&nbsp;an Associated Press account, this is not an isolated incident. Key West had to hire a Chicken Ranger to take back their streets. Don't let it come to that in your town. Contact your president today and urge him to address the pullet packs. He's given us three years of chickenshit expertise. Let's put it to work. 
