Afghanistan Is Radioactive

I was party to a bone scan today. In the early moments of the procedure a conversation broke out. It went like this, verbatim:

Patient: Do you ever get any wise guys in here?

Radiologist: What do you mean? You were in a couple of years ago....

Patient: Wise guys who complain that you're using the same ol' technology?

Radiologist: We do what we do. What would a wise guy complain about?

Patient: Wiseguys -- I'm not one of them -- might complain that you're using pre-Obama technology ....

Radiologist: That oil spill? Is that post-Obama, isn't it?

Patient: No, that's a Bush-era oil spill. Bush set it up.

Radiologist: Well, it's just too bad that the government doesn't have enough money to inspect every single oil well and coal mine, isn't it?

Patient: Fuck if we don't! We have enough money to inspect every godamned toilet and out-house in Afghanistan! Huh??

Radiologist: [Pressing down firmly on patient's chest]: Calm down. We can't have you shaking up the old equipment in here until this is over. This country has been 'round a few centuries. It's going to be okay.

Patient: Which country? the USA or Afghanistan?

Radiologist: USA, but I get your point. The USA is becoming more like Afghanistan every day. Bombs and bullets going off like elsewhere.

Enough said.