twenty-seven years and one million words
Let's all be careful around rural Ontario this summer kids – the giant hogweed lies in waiting. Apparently this nasty invader species can cause third degree burns and blindness in people who contact its sap.
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009