More proof that Everything Is Going To Shit:
Last week, one of the best-known landmarks of the excavated ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii collapsed. The House of Gladiators had survived the explosion of Mount Vesuvius over 1900 years ago, was excavated in the 1920s, and even survived Allied air raids during WWII, but poor maintenance of the site and budget cutting from the government of Silvio “Bunga Bunga” Berlusconi finally did it in. The rest of the ruins are similarly imperiled, to the outrage of many in Italy.
Several years ago, when I went to Ireland with my brothers, it seemed like everywhere we went there was the none-too-pleasant smell of peat being burned. Having long ago denuded the Emerald Isle of practically all the trees, the irish have been cutting peat out of the ground and using it as fuel for their furnaces, fireplaces, and stoves for centuries. But that’s coming to an end pretty soon, because the industrialization of peat excavation is destroying the bogs. Burning peat is seriously less efficient than other biofuels, and creates a lot more pollution, plus the bogs are highly-specialized habitats, so there’s actually an upside to driving the peat industry out of business, but they’re making sure they squeeze every last Euro out of it while they die.
And, then there’s this: Bristol Palin has made it to the semifinal round on this season of Dancing With The Stars and could win the whole magilla due to an organized effort of Palin-drones to rig the vote. Insert your own joke about this not being the first time Bristol went all the way.
Oh, and I almost forgot: Facebook launches their e-mail service today.
