A lot can be said about the Heritage Foundation. Its researchers continue to advocate marriage as a panacea to cure all ills, including, most recently, child abuse, but persist in opposing gay marriage (children of gay couples, the logic seems to be, are screwed either way.) Even as conservative and centrist opposition to the war in Iraq has rapidly increased (spreading even to their own, soon-fired staff members) and the lack of progress there has become more apparent, they continue to insist the surge is working. And the president of the organization continues to publish absurdly misleading and unscientific takes on global warming.

But... 

At least they have a sense of humor about themselves. Here's part of their unofficial response to my post awhile back, in which I made the earnest observation that their new construction job bears an uncanny resemblance to a moat:

[photo of Heritage prez and VP with alligator] 

Liberal bloggers at Campus Progress and Wonkette recently compared the Heritage Foundation’s barbed-wire fence and “moat” to the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. As noted by a commenter on Campus Progress, the one thing missing was an alligator.

Heritage President Ed Feulner and Executive Vice President Phil Truluck fixed that problem today when they took great care to deliver a new six-foot-long alligator to its new home — the Heritage moat. (See another shot of the alligator here.)

Some interns at Campus Progress over the summer helped to create substantive, progressive change in global warming policy, Iraq, marriage equality, and other issues that the Heritage Foundation is actively working against. I got the president of the Heritage Foundation to pose with an inflatable alligator. Which is better? You decide.