People always give God credit for doing or helping them to do good things, including winning the Superbowl. It’s good to know that a simple guy like Einstein could take God to task for everything else he is responsible for.
‘Why do you write to ‘God should punish the English’? I have no close connection to either one or the other. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.’
— Albert Einstein, letter to Edgar Meyer, a Swiss colleague, January 2, 1915; from ‘The Expanded Quotable Einstein, p. 201.
finished dharma bums tonight on bart, this fake-ku leapt into my brain:
loathsome allergies.
pollen floats into my nose,
oozing mucus flows.
