If you're gonna ride a llama from Peru to Texarkana*

Make sure you've got your documents in order and watch out for narcs.

Llama hatching nefarious plot to confuse American investigators re: fur vs. fleece, take over world


It might be time to renew my ACLU membership, after seeing what they dug up via FOIA. While the FBI says the records on these domestic groups are bycatch as they go after larger fish (or a white whale), I find this item almost as funny as it is alarming:

One F.B.I. document indicates that agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a "Vegan Community Project." Another document talks of the Catholic Workers group's "semi-communistic ideology." A third indicates the bureau's interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

This rattles my confidence in the investigative capabilities of the feds. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Andean ungulates (or, for that matter, a Heifer International gift catalog) knows that llamas are fiber animals. What they provide us is properly referred to as fleece, not fur. They are shorn like sheep, not skinned like mink. Our security must not depend upon those who cannot differentiate between a fleece and a pelt. Or a constitutional act and an illegal one, for that matter, but I digress.

Have you written your Senators today?

*Gracias, Hombre