A Plate Of Grapes

Many who have read Edward Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire draw parallels to today’s America. This was not Gibbon’s intention, of course, since the first volume was published before the American Revolution (February, 1776) with the next five volumes hitting bookstores (or whatever they had back then) from 1781 – 1789. For those of you unfamiliar with Gibbon’s thoughts how the mightiest empire of all time fell, here’s my attempt at reducing several thousand pages to a single sentence. They became lazy, complacent, and increasingly focused on trivial matters.

You may be asking yourself, “Hey, this is very interesting and thought provoking… why I am reading this on The Grape?”

Because, my good reader, the next stone has been placed in the pathway to our eventual destruction. Move over bread and circus, and let me introduce you to the Vampire Facelift.

This is wrong on so many levels. These ass hat doctors decided to cash in on the vampire craze, and I hope they don’t make a dime. Unfortunately, they’ll probably get fabulously wealthy off of it. The road to Hell isn’t paved with good intentions, it’s paved with stones like the Vampire Facelift.