Rationalism in Architecture
And its spectacular design failures. (Hat tip to Radley Balko.)
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Interesting that the government dynamited so many of Minoru Yamasaki's buildings...
ReplyDeleteWell, many of these projects have been demolished. Why is it interesting about his in particular? (I suspect a joke here, but I'm too dull to get it!)
ReplyDeleteSomebody please explain the joke to Gene:
ReplyDeleteIn what would become common practice, the 33 apartment buildings of the Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis (right), which had been conceived by Minoru Yamasaki, who would later design the twin towers of the World Trade Center, were dynamited.
There is a conspiracy theory in the truther community that the twin towers of the World Trade Center were brought down by controlled explosives.
ReplyDeleteMigod! I get it! The WTC were brought down, not by terrorists, not by a government conspiracy, but by architects!
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