Author: Athenian

According to this Associated Press story (via Yahoo): Most Americans surveyed in a poll say they do not think any country, including the United States, should have nuclear weapons. During the Cold War, I would have disagreed...

About eight millions years ago, the scientific consensus goes, the lines that eventually led to humans and to the rest of the great apes diverged. This is probably clear only in retrospect. If an alien species stood surveying...

One vote is a mandate, three million is a landslide. Tax cuts for the rich which do little for growth but damage the economy long-term are good. Janet Jackson’s nipple is bad. No, it is the most horrifying vision ever...

Many of us seem to have pets and/or be animal lovers, so I figured some pet blogging is in order. Join me below the fold, we don’t want to clutter up the diary page with pictures.This is Zinnia. She is nearly five years...

You are blessed. You live in the most promising time ever. You even have a chance at immortality. You are cursed. You live in the most dangerous time ever. Your species may even become extinct. Sometime in the late fifties,...