Let's Set the Record Straight...

Pam's House Blend has a very outrageous post on Smack-Daddy Dobson and his charges that Gay Marriage will lead to sex with donkeys....

Howler -- Dobson: gay marriage will lead to getting hitched to a donkey

I find his antics humorous in the extreme, considering the following from this month's HARPERS:

Number of U.S. states where bestiality is legal: 20

WTF??? 20??? Which states??

Want to harbor a guess that the states where it is legal are somewhat tinged with wingnuttery and red?

Well, most are:

Bestiality is legal (or at least not expressly outlawed) in these U.S. states:

• Alaska
• Arizona
• Colorado (Say, isn't this Dobson's HOME STATE???)
  
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Hawaii
• Iowa
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• Ohio
• Oregon
• South Dakota
• Texas
• Vermont
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wyoming

Also of note, different topic, same HARPERS Index:

Rank of 2004 among the most fiscally reckless years in U.S. history, according to the Comptroller General: 1

Projected cost of disability payments to Iraq War veterans in 2050, based on rates for Gulf War Veterans: $285,000,000,000