Now you're finally taking a stance I can agree with

They live only a few weeks and there are probably a trillion of them on this planet. They are about the least likely species to become extinct and their brains are so small they have no real consciousness and feel no pain. They're basically little instinct machines.

And the President took one out yesterday.

PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.

"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."

Really, PETA, this is where you want to make your stand? Flies? As if people don't think you're radical enough already? You're going to dis the President's awesome swatting skills? And this will just bring in the donations?

Good thinking, there.