"A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness, as amusing as the great movie comedians like Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and the many others who knew that a foot stuck in a bucket is funny, that a head stuck in a bucket is funnier, and that trying stubbornly to move a grand piano up a set of stairs obviously too steep and narrow to allow success is the hilarious distillation of the human experience."

Well, I'm not ready to throw in the towel on the species yet. Maybe I can find a couple of quotes or vids in my defense (then again . . . ). But one thing I can say is, the above is one hell of a quotation.

Herring405