I saw an interesting plate on the back of a Hummer today.

 IIRUINII

I suppose it could be read as 2-Ruin-2, but I think this was a visual play, like the two capital I’s were supposed to look like columns. Columns flanking a ruin, like this is the vehicle of an archaeologist with a sense of humor. And not a teaching archaeologist or anything like that because what teach would have the bucks to buy, trick out and keep scrupulously detailed this behemoth.

 I mean, maybe a celebrity archaeologist like Indiana Jones might get tired of looking for Ferrari parts and buy American, but…I don’t know, I think Indy would be more of a hybrid kind of a guy. He’d look at the 8-mile-to-a-gallon wonder and say something like technology like this belongs in a museum. He always says stuff like that.

There is a hint of irony here, though. I mean, not to be all tree-huggy or anything, but one (of the many) thing that is destroying our planet is carbon emissions from our ridiculous reliance on fossil fuels. So, in a sense, the completely unnecessary guzzler from hell is in some way responsible for our, well, ruin.

Somewhere a Native American dude is crying. Can you see it?