“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group,” said George Carlin.  And the “stupidization” of this country that has been progressing for the past dozen years or so is finally paying off.  When the Minister of Health says that the blood bank has been emptying because the forms were changed with the last minister from “mother and father” to “parent 1 and parent 2,” people stopped donating, you have to understand what it means.  Either everybody is crazy or he is.

And I am apparently following the trend.  When I told the cardiologist today that the high dose I’ve been given lately is making me stupid, he said – very gently, “It isn’t the pills….”