Bob Costa’s rant about end zone celebrations being symptomatic of the disintegration of American society is probably a bit overwrought.
This is… just sad.
Not content with just promises of a more perfect Union and domestic tranquility, metal thieves have targeted the U.S. Constitution to make a quick buck.
A thief or thieves have destroyed the 24-year-old Constitution Bicentennial Monument at City Park, apparently in order to steal and recycle the brass plaques that adorned it, authorities said.
The stolen plaques measure about four feet by two feet and bear the preamble to the U.S. Constitution and its articles. The monument was installed to commemorate the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987.
And Lincoln’s Tomb, as well, Pat.
It’s been a running joke among the moderns how conservatives complain that culture matters, and that modernity is dispensing with it at our peril.
“And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”Report
Dude, they stole the copper gutters from the public library in my town. What’s going on with all this stealing of scrap metal? How much can you get for a copper gutter?Report
Actually, copper is worth more than you think. For some reason, because there’s a vast global supply.Report