ann arbor is overrated.

From the cleaning-coffee-off-the-monitor department:

Today’s Ann Arbor News contains a very alarming little column about the state of engineering in Ann Arbor. It seems that MichCon employees are deciding where buried gas lines are by dowsing. That’s right, the ancient folk method of locating buried items with a forked stick that dowsers believe moves mysteriously when it is above the item in question. This method, as the appalled engineer who wrote the column points out, is also known as “divining” or “witching.”

Ann Arbor Sucks has been doing a lot of snarky eighteenth- and nineteenth-century references lately, but this is just too easy. We hear that after a MichCon employee searched for a gas line by Goody Crandall’s barn, her cow refused to give milk for three days.