On my way home today, I'm stuck in traffic, looking out the passenger-side window - I see a Wal-Mart, one of those big-ass suburban Wal-Mart Borg Cubes that's part grocery store, part clothes store, part tire shop... you get the idea. In the parking lot of this Wal-Mart is a McDonalds.

Disgusted, I look out my driver's-side window. On that side, there's a Publix strip mall. You know, Publix, dentist, lawyer, shoe store, and so on. In the parking lot of this strip mall... yeah, another fucking McDonalds.

Now, I'm sitting still in traffic, trying to figure out why anybody would need a McDonalds across from a McDonalds, and I'm reminded of the Lewis Black bit where he finds a Starbucks across from a Starbucks and proclaims that place the end of the universe. I had to laugh.

This place really is the end of the universe...