For washing blood off the altars?

We're all thinking about Mayans lately. We wonder if it's okay to spend all our savings on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives since the end is coming only six weeks or so after we re-elect His Obamaness.

But we hardly ever think about Mayan plumbing. Why bother? They probably just used buckets and really long ropes in the cenotes.

Turns out we're wrong. The Mayans had  sophisticated running water, fountains, and maybe even flush toilets, and There, I fixed It  has an entertaining essay on it.

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Strictly as an aside, a cult is running around these parts putting up billboards warning that the Revelations version of TEOTWAWKI is divinely scheduled for two weeks from tomorrow.  Personally, I find the Mayan logic more persuasive.