Recent news...
...reports that Barbaro, the horse that was seriously injured in the Preakness last year, was put down this morning after complications following another surgery.
As eulogies abound across the Internet, I shall go against the grain (at the risk of sounding extremely cruel):
It was a flippin' horse. Get over it. It should have been put out of its misery months ago.
People had raised 1.2 million dollars for that freaking horse to help pay for all of the operations and equipment that it would need.
We have sports writers eulogizing a freaking horse while we're losing American soldiers, human beings, every day in Iraq. But then again, in a country where dogs were saved before humans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I'm sadly not surprised.
Trust me. I don't hate animals. I sometimes talk to my cat as if it were human. But I know it's just a cat.
But honestly, people. Let's move on quickly from this. Barbaro was a horse. It was in pain. Let it go, and don't make a big fuss about it. Not when there's so many other things in this world to be sad about.
As eulogies abound across the Internet, I shall go against the grain (at the risk of sounding extremely cruel):
It was a flippin' horse. Get over it. It should have been put out of its misery months ago.
People had raised 1.2 million dollars for that freaking horse to help pay for all of the operations and equipment that it would need.
We have sports writers eulogizing a freaking horse while we're losing American soldiers, human beings, every day in Iraq. But then again, in a country where dogs were saved before humans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I'm sadly not surprised.
Trust me. I don't hate animals. I sometimes talk to my cat as if it were human. But I know it's just a cat.
But honestly, people. Let's move on quickly from this. Barbaro was a horse. It was in pain. Let it go, and don't make a big fuss about it. Not when there's so many other things in this world to be sad about.
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