the Pumphandle: Musings

Wednesday 2 May 2007

Musings

Overheard in the crowded waiting room of my ophthalmologist, with an average waiting time of two hours; one patient to another, "maybe you should just arrange to have your mailed forwarded here".

1 comment:

Unknown said...: It truly sounds alike to anywhere around here. It is funny how you can travel hundreds of miles along the borderlands; but the minute you cross that border it really feels different!

-Mark; 27 June 2007 at 23:21

Howard Zinn

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government, and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience…. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, and starvation, and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”