"Human nature being what it is..."

[arisbe]

If you were to count up the big-game cartridges available today, starting at .243 and ending at .45/70, you would come up with no fewer than 95. (Personally, I don’t recommend doing this, as it’s boring. You’d be better off reading Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War in the original Greek, or watching some good-looking babe swallow a cobra headfirst on a TV “reality” show.)

It was not always thus.