Ode to a Grecian Lush

A nice reflection on life, booze, and old school Greeks. I especially like one the comments posted in response: "All things in moderation, including moderation."

This blew my f'ing mind...

"If we compacted the history of the Earth into a movie lasting one year, running 146 years per second, life would not appear until March, multicellular organism not until November, dinosaurs not until December 13 (lasting until December 26), mammals not until December 15, Homo Sapiens (our species) not until 11 minutes before midnight of December 31, and civilization not until one minute before the movie ended. Yet in a very short, say less than 200 years, a mere 0.000002% of Earth's life, humans have become capable of seriously altering the entire biosphere. In some respects we have already altered it more profoundly that it has changed in the past BILLION years. (from philosopher Louis Pojman, written in 2000)

I had a number of thoughts about this (ambivelence about human genius and destruction, the insanity of religions based on anthropomorphic gods, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist's "Atomic Clock" approaching midnight, etc.)

What does it make you think about?

Good Cop Bad Cop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZM5JB3N43c