>The Chinese have rioting in the streets. Iran is having government trouble while it refines uranium for a bomb. Pakistan is fighting the Taliban. The monsoons are hitting India. There is fighting in Afghanistan. The world is over populated and the symtoms are getting worse and what is on every news channel in Canada and the USA? An unrelenting helicopter cam shot of Michael Jackson's hurse driving on an LA freeway to an over crowded ceremony of people who are more interested in saying they were there than actually caring about his passing.
They're rioting in Africa.
They're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida
and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans.
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch
and I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain
that some lovely day
someone will set the spark off
and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa.
There's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us
will be done by our fellow man.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
