“Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.”

—  Caitlín R. Kiernan

16 January 2005
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005

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