I've just watched the end of a program on the Discovery Times Channel about the discovery of over a hundred infant skeletons in a sewer in the ancient Roman city of Ashkelon. After detailing the evidence that the site was beneath a brothel, where slave girls would dump their unwanted babies, primarily the boys, because girls would grow up to replace their mothers. Of course, there was the obligatory caution at the end that we have no right to judge these people, instead of thinking how miserable and degraded their lives were.

Yeah, right. The more I learn about classical "civilization" the more I fear for what our world is becoming. But, let's not forget, they did invent cement and built good roads. And if they'd had trains, they'd have run on time.