Real Quote Of the Day

Pete Guither posts an article entitled “Quote of the day” in which he cites Bill Maher:

I mail myself a copy of the Constitution every morning just on the hope that [the government] will open it and see what it says.

That’s a pretty good line. However, a few posts later, Pete is discussing an editorial which derides our nation’s wasteful anti-drug efforts in Columbia only to advocate wasteful anti-drug efforts right here in the United States.

Pete’s response:

So while everybody seems to see that the war isn’t working, you’ve got some people saying “The problem is, we’ve got to kill more Colombians,” and someone else saying “No, no, you’re wrong — that doesn’t work. We’ve got to kill more Americans.”

Some days it feels like I’m watching a house on fire. And one idiot wants to put it out with a machine gun. The other one wants to use grenades. And I’m standing there with a bucket of water and they look at me like I’m crazy.

Damn. That’s exactly how it feels.

That is the real quote of the day.