I Think It's Dangerous To Be Optimistic.

If You Just Try To Make Rational Arguments About Why People Should Care About Congo And How 5 Million People Have Died, Then People Tend Not To Be Receptive. But Once You've Created A Connection Of Empathy, Rational Arguments Can Play A Supportive Role.

The World Spends $40 Billion A Year On Pet Food.

The Intelligence Community Is So Vast That More People Have Top Secret Clearance Than Live In Washington. The U.s. Will Spend More On The War In Afghanistan This Year, Adjusting For Inflation, Than We Spent On The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812, The Mexican-american War, The Civil War And The Spanish-american War Combined.

For Most Of History, Genocide Was Just Something Governments Did And Nobody Blinked.

There Are Ten Times As Many Sex Slaves Transported Around The Globe Today As Agrarian Slaves Were Transported In The 1790s.