14 March 2004 - constructive/destructive

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2004 : 14 March 2004

Explosions, From The Big Bang To Madrid
Or, Go Political Thermodynamics!

Humans, fascinated by supernovas and terrorist bombings, are constructive enough to realize that entropy has been increasing for twelve billion years, and destructive enough to further the cause.

clue:

That’s U.S. billion, “only” 12,000,000,000.

take oh take this clue away