I realize I've been wrong about the Shanksville memorial. Sure: some people think semicircles are simply semicircles. But even a circle, now that I've had a chance to cogitate on the matter, is made up of semicircles.

And any curved line is part of a circle—hence, potentially evocative of a crescent.

From now on, I demand that no memorial to any of the events on 9/11—or any memorial tied in any way to the War on Terror in this decade—contain any curved lines at all.

I expect everything to be grid-like, or at least Cubist in its execution. Otherwise, I will abstain from voting entirely in 2008, and let the Democrats have the White House!

Ha! Take that!

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I adore you—you know that. You're, like, my primary blog-crush and all, and I'm not just telling you that because that's why I say to all the boy-bloggers.

However, my dear sweet Master of Spadeossitude . . .

don't you think you might be getting a little black helicoptor, here?

Sometimes landscape architects work with the site, and use universal design elements (they call them "thingies," in AIA literature). Therefore, we have an obelisk commemorating George Washington in the National Mall. Did you hear that? We have a thingie at the National Mall, that is of Egyptian origin, and probably casts a shadow when the sun is shining. It casts a shadow. What could be more unpatriotic than that?

And arcs can look like crescents, and they are partial circles.

And there are pre-WWII houses of worship that feature swastikas, and the Iron Cross has been used in our military.

And some people regard the Confederate Flag as a symbol of rebellion, rather than being emblematic of racism.

Can't we all just calm down and let the landscape architects do their jobs? When the memorial is completed, I want to go there to pray, and thank the citizens who stepped up to the plate on 9/11, rather than contemplating how the Trilateralist Commission probably screwed things up.

Come on, Sweetie. Have some gin or something: it's good for you. At least, it's good for me, and that's the next best thing.

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