the Georgia Guidestones

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I had never heard of -- or if I had, I had forgotten -- the "Georgia Guidestones" until I ran across one of those portentous-toned television shows in which speculation overrides facts in the face of a slim number of undeniable facts.

The facts, as far as I can figure out, include the undeniable presence of granite blocks inscribed with encouragements and arranged on a piece of land in Georgia. The inscriptions -- in eight modern languages with shorter messages in Babylonian, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs -- offer sometimes-controversial suggestions to mankind. Aside from anything else, the monument must have cost a packet and speculation has it that TV mogul Ted Turner may have been behind the construction. The stones are located on farmland about 90 miles east of Atlanta, Ga.

Who, what, when, where, why and how -- the site sometimes referred to as the "American Stonehenge" was erected in 1979 and unveiled in 1980 and stands as an interesting curiosity and an invitation to (mostly) rational thought.

I am intrigued by its quotient of total uselessness ... the very-useful-yet-utterly-useless presence on  Georgia farmland.
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