What were they thinking?

Say whatever you like about their political stance, but hear me out on this one thing. CNN.com knows how to put a picture of a rooster, a cock, if you will, as the image for their current headline story. They are doing this because of the scare over a possible bird flu pandemic. Apparently roosters are the only animal that might have this flu. There was one image earlier today, one last week, and then a special one just in the last few minutes. And it’s freaking me out. Bad. While this will probably make you never come back to my blog, here it is, in all its… cockeyed creepiness:

This is an eye of a chicken, waaaaay to close, as seen through some fencing or some sort of cage. When show this image, the honorable Mr. Deatºn had this to say:

i’m going to get a 6 ft x 8 ft poster of it made at kinko’s, break into your apartment while you are asleep tonight, hang it on your ceiling, and then it’ll be the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning.

What Ben isn’t remembering is that the wife wakes up an hour before me, so the first thing I realize when I wake up will be her screaming at the ceiling. Such is life.

UPDATE: This is CNN’s logo for their Bird Flu coverage. See note above about how CNN thinks the rooster is the only animal fit to be pictured in bird flu coverage (because, let’s be honest here, if it was only chickens, they wouldn’t call it Bird Flu, they’d call it Chicken Flu)