Dave’s Diary:Obama’s Smile Inspires Toothy New Dinosaur Name

There are plenty of conservatives who believe they and America are now on a fast track to extinction.  The liberal left has told them that they’re time has passed, that they are “dinosaurs”, so isn’t it ironic that the leader of the left, the president, now has a dinosaur named after him! Researchers have named a newly discovered, prehistoric lizard "Obamadon gracilis" in honor of the 44th president's big toothy smile. You know the one. The one he flashes at the thought of conservatives being dinosaurs.

The small, insect-eating lizard was first discovered in eastern Montana in 1974, but a recent re-examination showed the fossil had been wrongly classified and was in fact a new species. In naming the new species, scientists from Yale and Harvard universities combined the Latin "Obamadon" for "Obama's teeth" and "gracilis," which means slender. Kinda makes you wonder if the lizard smoked cigarettes and played basketball.

  Obama is not the first president whose name has been used to help classify organisms. Megalonyxx jeffersonii, an extinct species of plant-eating ground sloth, was named in honor of President Thomas Jefferson. In 2005, a group of too clever for their own good entomologists named three species of North American slime-mold beetles agathidium bushi, agathidium cheneyi and agathidium rumsfeldi in honor of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld. They were probably working on a federal grant at the time.  Thank you. Thank you very much.   And add your own joke here as  an endangered species of marsh rabbit was named after Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. (Reuters)