Hey America, you may have been too busy delighting in the fruits of our thousand-year Mesopotamian adventure and rolling around on piles of strong dollars to notice our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. But thanks to Popular Mechanics, you can now find out which massive highway interchange, bridge, dam or waterway near you is about to collapse! And guess which proud metropolitan area earns not one but two spots on this coveted Top Ten list? Shame on you, Barack Obama! MORE »

Hey everyone, find the Deficient Bridge you drive over every day! [USAT]

Wait how did we not hear about the Baltimore-Washington Parkway being closed? Sure, we don’t drive, and we aren’t going to Baltimore this weekend or anything, and we don’t really read, like, the metro section, but still. It was closed because — wait for it — BRIDGES ARE FUCKING COLLAPSING. MORE »

Hooray, we’ve found the first new “bridge phobia” spin-off story from the awfulness in Minneapolis. Forgetting for the moment that a “phobia” is an irrational fear and that particular I-35 bridge had a 50% chance of collapsing at any moment and there are thousands of American bridges with equally horrific chances of crumbling today and killing you, let’s go ahead and mock this part: MORE »