There is no greater example of the wussification of America than than the growing neglect of our nation's infrastructure.

Preadaptation involves the changes in a plant or animal that eventually contribute to, say, a structure that helps survival, but which take place before that structure is fully formed. […] Thus, an insect that has evolved the useful disguise of looking very much like a piece of dung in order to damp the enthusiasm of any non-coprophagous predator is clearly on to a good thing but, as Stephen Jay Gould has wisely observed, what is the adaptive value in looking only 5 per cent like a turd?

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Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener.