Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.