Idealogian

Spam

"We felt that the key to the new law was enforcement."

The brilliant thing about this quote is that it's absolutely idiotic and yet its utterer somehow managed to get it into the New York Times anyway. When is enforcement not the key to a new law? If a law has been recently enacted, presumably it was because people were enjoying the freedom of acting contrary to that law. If the law isn't enforced, why would they stop? So while the context in this article was anti-spam laws, the quote could just as easily apply to pretty much anything else.

Later in the article, we find this gem:

Spam has proven to be a plague of the modern world that has defied nearly every effort to mitigate its effects.

Nothing like a little absurd hyperbole to put things in perspective. Why, compared to the plagues of the old world, like say, the 10 plagues, or perhaps the Plague, spam seems downright friendly by contrast.