palliative kyla What? Revenge? Security? Oh, help. Tell me we're not going to spend 8 billion to keep us from ourselves. We are a greedy, lazy, stupid, unchanging, puerile, asshole species with too much time and too little purpose. Can't we just call ourselves that? Can't we append that to every public political/moral/ethical/bullshit/hypocritical discussion that takes place? Then I'd be fine with spending 8 billion on stupidity and 1/80th as much on childcare programs and 1/160th on health research. I'd be like, "Hey, at least we're honest! Remember a thousand years ago, when we were, like, exactly the same? Cool!" 011213 ... chanaka we are only an eyeblink in time 011214 what's it to you? who go blather from