QUOTE OF THE DAY: Tom Lehrer

In light of the EU-Nobel Peace Prize debacle, the following quote by American singer-songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer seems particularly prescient:

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."



This he famously quipped when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1973, i.e. as the heinous Vietnam War dragged on and in the same year in which Kissinger connived with the CIA to overthrow Salvador Allende and replace him with Augusto Pinochet in a violent coup in Chile.

How very fitting these words are nearly forty years later...

Do you get my point?