Here's one for discussion -
I am going thru newspaper and updating my scrapbook (DAMN bin Laden! WAYYYYY too much paper to make it easy now...) and every now and then I see some item derying a "rising death rate."
Excuse me?
Save a small percentage of us (I will probably get two, due to my current medical Hx) I thought the death rate was pretty constant - one to a customer. Everyone is born once, and pretty much everyone dies once. At least, once than matters...
Some people (again, like me) will bring the death rate to slightly above 100%, but it seems that in the long run, the number of births and deaths is pretty damn close to equal.
This sounds like specious logic to me - like when the media was wringing its collective hands about the proliferation of "high capacity ammunition" - the closest thing we can come up with to that is the Winchester Ultra Magnum (in .300 and .308) and the Holland .700 Nitro Express...
FFZ