It was born posthumous, doomed from the start - but now, thanks to Paul Smith and his associates, road and faux-Aztec fort will come together in a glorious, head-on, multiple pile-up.
This isn't a festival of a single category, like the defunct doom-metal marathon Emissions From the Monolith, which used to run annually in Youngstown, Ohio, and has been replaced, sort of, by Born to Be Doomed, which will cast its giant frown July 2 and 3 in Baltimore.
And voilà, the Terminator-like Cylon is born, and Caprica is doomed.
Not, of course, that the circumstances in which our children find themselves are comparable to those of a Jewish infant born in filth and doomed to die at the hands of his mother while millions of other Jews are killed at the hands of strangers (or neighbors).
Saroj, a dalit, or "untouchable," epitomizes what was once unthinkable in India: upward mobility for someone whose caste long meant she would die as she was born: uneducated, dirt-poor, doomed to a life of dangerous and filthy work.
But if you believe that congenital poverty is ineradicable, that to be born poor is to be doomed to poverty, then you have to pay moral tribute to the fact of social unfairness.
Any relicensing scheme that is the brainchild of a politician and born out of Whitehall is doomed to fail, and become just another stick with which to beat a demoralised, worn-out workforce.
Clubfoot, which affects about 200,000 infants a year, is a horribly disabling birth defect, one that can doom a child born in a poor country to a marginal life.
He'd be proud that his son avoided the pitfalls that have unfortunately doomed too many boys born in South Central Los Angeles.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard was born in Normal, Ill .in 1925, perhaps dooming him from the start.
