Nada más la puntita

Este párrafo viene del primer capítulo de The Assault on Reason de Al Gore. El capítulo completo se puede leer aquí: The Politics of Fear.

When I was a boy growing up on our family farm in the summers, I learned how to hypnotize chickens. You hold the chicken down and then circle your finger around its head, making sure that its eyes trace your hand movement. After a sufficient number of circles, the chicken will become entranced and completely immobile. There's a lot you can do with a hypnotized chicken. You can use it as a paperweight, or you can use it as a doorstop, and either way, the chicken will sit there motionless, staring blankly. (What you can't do is use it as a football. Something about being thrown through the air seemed to wake that chicken right up.)

Ahora imaginen un pollo hipnotizado encima de los papeles en la oficina de Al Gore

Lo que no puedo imaginar y que me parece perverso, incluso para un político que llega a vicepresidente en Estados Unidos, es usar un pollo para jugar fútbol.