It’s the Manimal, stupid

In this ever-alarming world, President Bush raised a new specter in his State of the Union speech that many of us had never considered: the Manimal. “Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research … creating human-animal hybrids,” Bush urged Congress. To help the cause, a new Web site, humananimalhybrid.net, is raising funds through the sale of T-shirts, coffee mugs and other paraphernalia depicting the most dreaded forms of “Manimal,” including the Man-Pig (pig with a human head), the Bull-Sapien (bull with human legs and feet, complete with wing-tip shoes) and the ManRoosterBeast (rooster with human legs).