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...tiny, shriveled, and with absolutely no use or value.



And that other's thinger.

The Senate (that wonderfully deliberative body, (Now! with Al Freakin' Franken!) will consider this criminally insane bill next.

Call 'em, if you care. Or not. This, by Sgt. Mom...

After the great Fall, the horizons contracted, drew in, cities in the west shriveled and the great Roman works and roads crumbled through lack of maintenance. Constantinople survived and carried on with many mutated Roman traditions until it fell to a new tribe of conquerors, but in the West, the children of empire lived among crumbling remnants, and forgot the trades and skills of their ancestors, skills that were no longer applicable or useful in the brute struggle for simple survival. Gone the baths, gone the centrally-heated villas, gone the trade, the artistry and the law, and the knowledge of how these great works were even constructed, save in a few tiny enclaves, and among a pitiful few. ...