Tonight I managed to stumble across the story of Kenneth Pinyan, a Seattle man famous for, well, having sex with horses and posting the video on the internet.  Something that didn’t exactly make him famous until one of his horse/man liaisons in 2005 did some serious internal damage and he died.

While Mr. Pinyan’s story probably inspires some level of morbid fascination in the sort of people who slow down to look at traffic accidents, his bestial escapades aren’t why I’m posting on him.  I’m posting on him because some Hollywood yahoos actually made a movie about his life, and it was one of 16 winners at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

No, I’m not kidding you.  It’s called Zoo, and it’s even got a poster:

This is apparently what is passing for high-brow entertainment among Hollywood’s liberal elite these days.  Just listen to the director talking about this movie - which, again, is about a man who had sex with horses as a hobby - as though it were some sort of a political statement:

This was a guy who was a conservative man at one point, and those ideas started breaking down for him. I think that 9/11 triggered a lot of it. But he was [also] in the center of one of the most secretive military complexes. Meanwhile, he listened to a lot of left-wing radio, he questioned everything our government was involved in, and he was ethically conflicted about his job and the money he was making. That’s the core fascination for me.

He was a conservative who was turned from the dark side by 9/11!  He started questioning the government and listening to left-wing radio!  The next thing you know he was boinking horses!  It’s all very fascinating!

I’m not sure a person could get more pretentious even if they majored in it in college.