Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Wednesday, February 07, 2007


The artistic hacks whose principal aim these days is to dream up blueprints of eyesores and hope DONALDs stamp their names on the penthouses with gold leaf have issued an idiotic PR-poll (90% of parents LOVE movie ratings! Britney is the WORST dog owner!) in which the PEE-pul rate their favorite buildings. This is social-science quackery again playing mischief with our taste. Some of the choices are unimpeachable: the Lincoln Memorial, The Golden Gate Bridge, the Chrysler Building; some of it is match the building with the picture (are the White House and the Washington Monument that great?), some of it is name-dropping (how many people are truly aware of Fallingwater and Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces?), some of it is uneducation (Lever House among others is conspicuously missing) and some of it is sheer stupidity -- the RELIANT Astrodome? Wanamaker's [SIC!!!!!] Department Store in Philadelphia? The BELLAGIO?!? THE WORLD TRADE CENTER?!?!? Oh, so the hacks' organization is celebrating a birthday. Why did it have to blow out the candles so hard it got the icing all over us?

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