Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Ellsworth Toohey Would be Proud:   Rabid Anti-Rebuilding New York Times architectural critic Herbert Muschamp and his gang of heavy hitters of the architectural profession will (according to an article in the New York Observer) announce their plan for the WTC site.   Rather than a series of dwarvish towers, this proposal will presumably be to permanently install some hideous empty hole in the skyline.  No doubt this will be seen as his great achievement in influencing the look of Manhattan. 10:50:53 AM

Who Doesn't Want to Rebuild the WTC?  Argus Venton says he knows!  He has a page outlining those he thinks are opposed to rebuilding.  I think he left out a few others: Osama Bin Laden, Ramzi Yusef, Abdul Rhamah Yasin, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Sheik Abdel Rahman, every homocide bomber in the world, and the same craven "intellectuals" in the United States and Europe who have been nagging us to not stand up to the murderers who did this and their supporters.  Bush had it right in his speech right after the attack.  Either you are for us or you are against us. 12:40:32 AM

A History of Rebuilding After Disasters: There's a nice history of several rebuilding projects after disasters, some surprisingly similar to the WTC disaster at the Team Twin Towers site, though I thought that Sherri Tracinski's description of the rebuilding of the Parthenon when Athens was burned is an even more appropriate parallel of the situation we face today. 12:14:35 AM

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