'Merika, Land of the Dead...

Some of us are well aware of what Mark Morford so eloquently sums up in his latest piece:

Bring out yer dead -- plague is already here

You want to feel as if you might as well be in Tucson or Boise or Modesto or Wichita or Muncie and it no longer freakin' matters because we as a nation have lost all sense of community and place? Why, just pull over, baby. Take the next exit. Right here, this very one.

There it is, yet another big-box mega strip mall, a giant beacon of glorious community decay, a wilted exclamation point of consumerism gone wild. This is America. You have arrived. You are home. Eat it and smile.

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via monochrom