Is This All a Part of America's Regression to the Dark Ages?

With New Orleans returning to the stone age (I actually saw a photo of a man washing his clothes on a rock on the riverside yesterday), America's mental regression to the pre theory-of-evolution-is-obvious days and President Og's new might makes right version of foreign policy, I've finally gotten the evidence I need to support my assertation that the next Dark Age is right around the corner. Seems like there are two gators in Harbor Lake. And to quote the astronauts landing on a unfamiliar Earth in Planet of the Apes, upon finding a small plant: "Where there is one, there is another, and another, and another..."

Will ancient dinosaurians be walking the streets of Pedro next? Is the inability of an entire City Department and a pack of goofily dressed, Crocodile Dundee, wannabees to catch a single gator in a confined space more evidence that society as a whole is on the verge of collapse?

Note to self: stockpile guns, water, canned food...