New Orts #26

July 14 MMXXIV

The average person's grasp of risk factors is so poor that it's commonplace to meet cigarette smokers who worry about terrorism.
— Gwynne Dyer, newspaper column, July 3, 2002

Believe it or not, the [second world] war was good for most forms of wildlife because people stopped shooting at animals and shot at one another.... If we had only kept on fighting for another ten years, and eliminated ourselves entirely, wildlife would have made a complete recovery. 
— Farley Mowat (1921-2014)

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)