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Primal Ooze

“[T]he human race is actually de-evolving, . . . we are moving backward on the evolutionary scale. If you picked the headlines from the five largest newspapers in Florida every day, you could make a very solid case that the human race was slipping backward into the primal ooze.” 

—Carl Hiaasen
, writer and Miami Herald columnist, “Carl Hiaasen on Human Weirdness,” Smithsonian Magazine, 2010

• Editorial Comment: Let’s not even mention, say, Iowa.




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