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In Alliance, NE, stands the most strange and wonderful thing you can imagine: Carhenge.

This is what I wrote about Carhenge five years ago:

After a withdrawal-inducing absence of several days, Jeanne d'Arc returns with a couple of great posts, and some links on looting, most notably this article entitled, boldly enough, "The Case for Looting", by one Steven E. Landsburg writing for Slate. Landsberg's thesis is that there's really not much wrong with looting in Iraq, on the grounds that the looting did not remove wealth from the Iraqi economy, it just shifted it to new owners. Since most of the wealth in Iraq was obtained illegitimately, there is nothing wrong with Iraqi looters reclaiming some of it for themselves.

Several bloggers have written very insightful words about the looting in Iraq, particularly the almost total decimation of the Baghdad Museum's collection. Teresa Nielsen Hayden's comments have been particularly cogent, both mourning the loss of so many priceless artifacts and berating an administration and military that allowed it to happen.