Nature has set upon him the process of decline

When times get grim, things can get weird.  With the internet, it comes faster than ever. 

In the midst of decline, a strange beauty can emerge. The somehow strange, yet captivating website below is a mix of ambient music and the police scanner. At least check it out.

http://youarelistening.to/newyork

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

William Graham Sumner

The WSJ has a piece on the decline of Detroit.  Once one the ten largest cities in the US.  I had a post last year on the decline of Detroit.  Also see Time Photogallery.  Just six months ahead of the news.  Detroit is the result when you run out of other peoples money.  It’s now endemic in America.  The result will be painful.

WSJ

Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne¤ onori ne¤   stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua.

Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages, I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

Giuseppe Garibaldi