Oh, we’re just falling apart, aren’t we?

The Fall of Civilization blog is not good for you health. Seriously.

So, isn’t it funny how the only things that ever really worked well in the late half of the twentieth century in America were the massively subsidized government projects, like the highway system? (Also the railroads.) And isn’t it funny that as we privatize everything, and let the infrastructure fall apart, it looks more and more like Rome around here? The broken aqueduct no one wants to repair, the occasional lost city like Ephesus…err, I mean New Orleans…Yeah. It’s going to be an interesting life, sitting on the edge of the fall.

[From Report: Repairing U.S. bridges would cost $140 billion - CNN.com]