Anorexia on turf

To prove that ideals can be perverted, to achieve the ideal of slimness Americans perfected anorexia in young women. To achieve the ideal of speed on the backstretch, thoroughbred gambling perfected anorexia on the turf. No longer is the ideal horse a thing of beauty, albeit a hayburner. No longer do strength, stamina and heart prevail. Cowardly inbreeding accounts for the 2nd race horse put down after competition. Barbero and now Eight Bells... As Glenn Beck so cleverly put it Monday May5h, 2008, the automobile on popsicle sticks remains out of the purview of pet status. Why could technology not have saved this filly when she broke down? Why couldn’t she have been saved to become some one’s pet? Why no way? Horseflesh has been re-tuned, refined and literally down-sized to the point that the ‘kings and queens of the wind’ are capable of fewer and fewer races. The car’s horsepower has bulked up; the horse has been slimmed down. No wonder the outside of these ‘commercial’ horses cannot enrich the inside of a man. Descendants of Native Dancer are cursed, so why continue to breed them? The answer lies in another perversion - the perversion of the ideal world when common sense has been bred out of humanity. Take two current examples. A new law establishes a data base for next of kin in cases of emergency or death. This new law is necessary to overturn the old law that refused to reveal to individuals identities of next of kin in just such cases. Again, the government mandated and subsidized ethanol but now that food prices have soared, government wants to cut back on the program. Insane goings on!