I’ve heard about these giant pythons that are taking over the Everglades. I gotta say, I’ve never liked snakes, and I’m happy that we don’t have too many of them around here. I really don’t like the idea of 19-foot snakes. The whole thing creeps me out, and I don’t even live in Florida. I’ve heard of these snakes invading city apartments through the plumbing, and that idea just gives me the willies. I don’t understand the appeal of giant constricting snakes as pets. Having said that, I don’t know what the rules should be about keeping pets. And I don’t know whether all the hype about these Floridian pythons screwing up the eco-system is true. If I lived in South Florida, I’d just move.
On the other hand, maybe we could use these pythons in Herman Cain’s moat.
A Republican wanting to pass legislation to regulate the free market and free trade?
Where are Rush, Glenn and the socialism hunters on this?
The idea of a 19-foot python slithering into Rush’s studio in Palm Beach County does have some appeal though, don’t you think?
Just think of the possibilities if the python gets into the Oxycontin supply…
Or the Viagra
All I know is that Asia could have kept their stinkbugs and pythons, and I would have been cool with that.
We’re going to build a moat around Herman Cain? By all means, put pythons in it!
But do it during a debate, so we’d be protected from the rest of them, too.
Oh. Wait. I misunderstood…
Frankly, if I lived in South Florida I’d have far more pressing concerns ..
Hey, just move to Ireland! They’re in the vanguard of the economic program that is being imposted in the US, so you’ll get a preview of the coming econocalypse.
Now, I rather like snakes; had one as a pet for many years. Last year saw a ribbon snake in the backyard, cute little guy, hope he thrives and eats lots of mice.
In other words, they need to get the motherfucking snakes out of the motherfucking Everglades
…and into a m-fing moat.
Living in a small island country with at least 9 deadly venomous snakes, I’d rather have the pythons; they’re not big enough to eat people, or not me anyway. When we lived in my wife’s old house, there was a vacant lot next door, and we had cobras. Much rather have pythons.
Not that I’d ever want to keep one, or have it as a nextdoor neighbor (or marrying my daughter if I had one), but snakes are beautiful, with amazing colors and patterns of their nonslimy scales, superbly efficient predators, and much preferring to leave humans alone if only the humans would leave them alone.
Like savage dogs and Republican governors, snakes are menaces only when ignorant human beings put them in places where they can wreak havoc.
Alternately: the humans put themselves in places where they can wreak havoc.
I love snakes, especially garters and king snakes, which eat all sorts of pests like mice, rats, moles, voles, and insects. Along with a thriving family of toads, a family of garter snakes is my fondest wish for my backyard garden.
“I don’t understand the appeal of giant constricting snakes as pets.” — They’re very affectionate.
Having spent most of my life in Palm Beach County (although mercifully I escaped years ago), I can tell you it’s not just snakes, Boo. It’s exotic fish and all sorts of other shit. I assume it’s people bringing them in to go along with the “tropical lifestyle,” and then losing them.
Understand, too, that it’s not generally native Floridians who do this. It’s the locusts from the Midwest, the Northeast and Cuba. While I’m generally appreciative of the first two’s votes, I’m also mindful of the fact that they’re the people who’ve completely destroyed South Florida.
Driving through Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens where I grew up these days, through the vacant housing developments and failed shopping centers, always reminds me of the Banksy painting in Detroit: