When we hunted large animals to near extinction, we found ways to hunt and consume smaller species.
In college when we would hunt for a midnight snack, I would hide in the space below a car's glove compartment, ready to scrunch up even further if the cops pulled us over.
"There's going to be a time in our life when we're hunting in T-shirts and tank tops".
And when we go hunting, we do it with a shotgun or a rifle; not a semi-automatic, 100-rounds per minute death machine and a grenade launcher.
Chronic diseases, like diabetes and heart disease, became more common when we stopped hunting and foraging for food and started farming and eating more processed foods.
Back when we had to hunt down our calories, and sugar was a scarcity (a few bitter berries and beehives here and there), it made sense to have a unique capacity to binge on it because, wait for it, sugar is the best source of fat on the planet.
We let our checking account balance slip below a minimum balance and get zinged for $35 when we could just hunt around for a bank with free checking.
As for this "clash of civilizations" that Gingrich and Geller are pushing, our foes must be saying, "Bring it on!" It should be no wonder that when we go hunting for false specters, we create the kind of monsters we fear the most.
WHO -- Peter Houck, 67, a retired intelligence officer who now works as a consultant, and his wife, Carolyn, 64, a lawyer from Chevy Chase, Md .WHAT -- 2-bedroom town house WHERE -- St. Michaels, Md. Peter: When we were house hunting about a year ago, living in town wasn't on our minds.
Ultimately, if you look back at the beginning of warfare, which harkens all the way back to the yawnings of agriculture, when we finally stopped hunting and gathering and started to set up city-states and farms, the origins of warfare are specifically at that point when there was this realization that there were limited resources of things for us to go after.
