Hollowed-Out
I propose this as a metaphor for a large country whose institutions are being hollowed out.
U.S. and Texas: It is too Dangerous to Vacation in Mexico
Texas Travel Advisory regarding Mexico:. See also here for similar U.S. warnings.
The Texas Department of Public Safety warned Americans to skip spring break vacations in Mexico, noting that ongoing violence poses a significant safety threat.The warning —which adds to State Department advisories not to travel to large swathes of the country — comes in the wake of the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico earlier this month. There's a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" advisory for Tamaulipas, the Mexican state the Americans were in when they were kidnapped.
In the meantime, here are the numbers of murders over the past year in various American cities:
Portland Oregon: 93 Philadelphia: 516 San Antonio: 231 Saint Louis: 200 Memphis: 288 New Orleans: 280 Chicago: 697 Houston: 435 Washington DC: 203 Kansas City: 167
Using Asbestos to Protect you from the Cancer
I didn't know this until today:
It's a good thing we stopped doing extremely dumb things a long time ago.
Leonard Nimoy’s 1978 Warning: The Imminent Ice Age
Things looked icy and bleak in 1978. But then it didn't happen, like so many other things that have been predicted. What is the lesson we can learn from this failure? When we make predictions regarding complex adaptive systems, perhaps we need more humility. Perhaps we shouldn't act like we are sure of things when we aren't.
