Symbolic

Interesting piece today on NPR about how symbolic thinking paved the way for human civilization.

Happy 65th Birthday, Little Boy.

We're all still in the shadow of that first blast.  There are nearly 23,000 nuclear weapons out there these days. It's probably only a matter of time before another of these goes off, likely by a nonstate entity. Or perhaps tactical nukes used by a state against another state. Either way, it's going to be ugly. And more nations are still wanting to join the nuclear club, which only increases the likelihood of something happening.

I believe it!

http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/06/27/sex_at_dawn_interview

Although I'm more of a serial monogamist, in some way, shape, or form. Still, I think their critiques of American conceptions of love, sex, and marriage and what-not are on the mark.