This is neither here nor there, but it just occurred to me: Last night, the Steelers—a team named after Pittsburgh’s legendary industrial past—beat the Cardinals, a team closely identified with a bird. Industry beats nature. Prophecy?
Superbowl as omen?
In which industry conquers nature 3
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Posted 3:08 PM on 2 Feb 2009
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Pangolin Posted 8:19 am
02 Feb 2009
There's your symbolism; haggard survivors of the industrial age clawing for token victories in the face of extinction.
Put the Carbon Back
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rycarson Posted 9:05 am
02 Feb 2009
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GreenMom Posted 1:52 pm
02 Feb 2009
The Steelers are from Pittsburgh, a former steel town reincarnated into a high tech center, with a deeply-rooted blue collar fan base across the western half of the state. Their totem, the terrible towel, was dreamed up by a guy who, in his dotage, left the rights to the towel to a nonprofit that runs group homes for mentally handicapped adults, giving the nonprofit millions a year in income in perpetuity.
Who's really got the moral high ground?
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