Whatever the Monolith Is, We All Hate It

data-mm-id=”_fbs0b8r8h”>Eagle-eyed officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety spotted a mysterious metal monolith while peeping sheep two weeks ago. It was a whole big thing because an unexplained object like this showing up without explanation in the Red Rocks is something out of several Steven Spielberg films mashed together. No one knows what it is or how it got there. Just that we should care because it obviously meant … well … something. Then it vanished as surreptitiously as it arrived. Only for a similar object to be discovered on a vista in the Romanian city of Piatra Neamt, leading local leaders to crack wise. “Andrei Carabelea, mayor of Piatra Neamt, appears to be taking the news in stride.

“There is no reason to panic for those who think there is still life in t…