Do you know what he eats for lunch?

Nuclear destruction is inevitable.

Did you know that some of the most powerful men in this country — the leaders of the military, industry, and politics — go away to this fancy mansion and play games, like squirting each other with shaving cream, having water fights, and looking at porn movies, and all sorts of practical jokes involving the bathroom?

Any number of professional prostitutes have gone on record to the effect that their weirdest clients — the ones who need to get dressed up in chicken suits, and so forth — are prominent people in politics.

These are the people who run everything. Do they seem competent to you? Do you know that in the recent past we have had two presidents of the United States in a row whose favorite lunch was cottage chesse with catsup in it? Do you know who the president of the United States is as you read this? Do you know what he eats for lunch?

These are the people in charge of the nuclear arsenal. I ask the reader — is there any reason to believe that these idiots will fail to blow up the world?

The answer is: only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.

Is there any hope? There is only this: the people under discussion tend to do most things by accident.

— Daniel Pinkwater, Young Adults page 84 … 1985

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