How should we judge a government?

"No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life and breeds ill will and suspicion – it is an evil government".

- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind 1954

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. "
“You are saying our problem is civil disobedience, but that is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. . . . 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.”
-Howard Zinn

MyCen News

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Confessions of a hotel front office manager

'Once she had to attend to an angry guest who complained that the "microwave oven" in her room failed to work.

"I was puzzled when I was told of the complaint by my receptionist. I went to the guest's room and I tried so hard to contain my laughter when she pointed to the safe box and complained that 'the microwave' didn't work," recalls Janice.

"I looked into the box and saw a bowl of curry, waiting to be heated up."...'

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