The New York City Mayoral race is turning into a circus of epically sick proportions: The two Democrats competing against each other are Anthony Weiner (most famous for sending penis-shots over the Internet,) and out-lesbian Christine Quinn, who has a major donor that once pleaded guilty to incest with his daughter. Combined with the recent flood of corruption scandals in Washington DC, the American political scene is more and more taking on all the trappings of Late-Imperial Rome. This all reminds me of the hapless Severan Dynasty. They were the last ruling family that took over after the hedonism and corruption of Commudus; but they were even worse than their predecessors and succumbed to the most deviant forms of sexual degeneracy; the most fascinating: Emperor Elagablus who tried to find a doctor that would perform a sex-change operation to turn him into a woman. The strange goings-on signaled the beginning of the end. I think American is now on its way.