The Slime That Ate DC

No kidding. If you have been to Washington, DC the monuments are stunning - particularly when lit at night, and they stand as pristine white sentinels to our proud history as a nation. But now a black slime is creeping across these monuments and other governmental buildings that is turning them into dowdy structures one might see in the former Soviet Union.

Whatever this stuff is, so far it has resisted efforts to remove it and even has the experts stumped as to what it is. My own take is that it's an outward sign of the rot that you can't see in our Capital and like Dorian Gray, it is leaking through into plain sight. What delightful - and sad - symbolism!

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