Anthropologist Elliott Leyton was on Canada AM on Tuesday, and he spoke about his new book. What is that book about? (leave an answer in the comments section; no cheating by visiting CTV.ca):

Leyton says what he's discovered about ________ is that they are all in some way disenfranchised. They are social outcasts whose ambitions haven't been fulfilled.

And they blame their failure on a particular group that they feel is responsible for denying them their proper place in society. They begin fantasizing about a campaign of vengeance against the group.

Many sociologists have noticed a gradual increase in the number of ________ over the past century. Leyton believes that has a lot to do with urbanization, and a loss of "community", along with cultures that glorify violence.

He notes though that even if those problems are eliminated, there are always going to be __________.

Oh, what the hell: One more skin from the Onion!

President Bush unveiled an aggressive initiative Monday that would make the U.S. free of petroleum dependence by the year 4920, less than three millennia from now.

Above: President Bush presents his plan for his nation's far future.

"Our mission is clear," Bush said in a speech delivered at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. "We must free ourselves from dependence on fossil fuels within 85 generations. A cleaner, safer America is my vision. And it is our great, great—great-times-80 grandchildren who will realize that vision."

Bush promised a legislative package that would mandate severe cuts in oil-production subsidies and provide new funding for alternative-energy research and development. These bills could be introduced as early as 3219. U.S. energy consumers could start seeing radical changes by the early 42nd century.

From (where else but?) The Onion

Sixty years ago today, Nagasaki became the second test laboratory for the killing power of atomic weapons -- only it was hit with a plutonium bomb, not a uranium one like Hiroshima.

A remembrance ceremony was held today. Here's the BBC story.

An earlier, relating posting is Hiroshima and my nuclear paranoia (still in progress, but getting there :) ).

Here's another earlier posting about the recent unearthing of stories by George Weller, the first U.S. journalist to visit Nagasaki after the bombing -- stories the U.S. military had spiked at the time.