Jared Diamond interview: “

There’s an excellent interview with Jared Diamond in Salon—I’m definitely going to have to buy his new book, Collapse.

Toward the end of ‘Collapse’ you describe two crucial factors for determining whether or not a civilization will survive, and one of them is whether there’s a willingness to discard unhelpful values. Clearly we have some values in this country that are very important to us, but some of them, like anathematizing family planning, aren’t very helpful in this day and age.

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Foolish Jared, expecting people to do the reasonable, rational thing.

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(Via Pharyngula.)

yep, foolish…. sarcasm prevalent.

riverfronttimes.com | Eat More Beaver | 2005-01-05: “For 69-year-old Lorraine Wells and her husband, Joe, barbecued coon is the only way to go. The Wellses soak the creature in a mixture of vinegar, water and salt overnight, and then parboil the carcass with seasoned salt, garlic and pepper. When the meat is tender, Joe tosses the carcass on the grill and smokes the meat for a few hours. They insist raccoon tastes better than roast beef.”

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this traditions seems to me, to be more real than most.