Cool...earthquake......

Saw this piece of graffitti in a bar tonight (before the quake)-"The Roman Empire was a Shatner."

Okay, that's pretty cool in a hip, pop-cultural Dadaesque kind of way, but, still, huh?

Then I looked at it some more. The original scrawl was: "The Roman Empire was a sham."

First of all, totally historically inaccurate. Second of all, what does somebody have against the Roman Empire and what compelled them to scrawl some drunken protest on a paper towel dispenser in a dive bar?

Because, as we all know.....(wait for it).....

...apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?