speaking of hippos...

cheney's not the only rotund creeper lurking (see below)...
a couple of the hippos that pablo escobar imported to his 7400-acre ranch reproduced (yeah, pablo was pretty normal -- he also fancied zebras, camels, rhinos, lions, elephants, ostriches, buffaloes...i guess it was good for a twofer: money laundering and entertaining). cut to 20 years later: 2 of them recently decided to creep upriver from the ranch -- apparently one male dominated all the ladies, so the other two males instinctively left. which is pretty funny, since you know, hippos aren't exactly indigenous to colombia. last seen outside an industrial city on the magdalena river, no one knows what to do with the multi-ton creatures. and now they're on the loose, lookin for love. ah, the dangers of colombia -- guerrillas! hippos! glyphosate! oh my...