Venice, Versailles, Vienna..

[jberryhill]

At least the ruling class in places like those had the decency and taste to have amassed things worth seeing for centuries.

Ours is only going to leave behind empty strip shopping centers, missing mountaintops and mountains of Chinese crap.

[northoftheborder]

1. As a lover of architecture, old and new, I am saddened to know that....

......most all of the newest, most technically advanced, unique and unusual buildings are going up NOT in the US. China, the Emirates, Japan, Saigon have fascinating structures being built.

[jberryhill]

2. Paid for by us.

[Buzz Clik]

3. True. But they do inspire art.

Molly Ivins, "Shrub"
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911"
Will Farrell's "You're Welcome, America"

Christmas Ornaments:

Bush or Chimp:

Yeah. It's depressing. But we have little islands of happiness.

[jberryhill]

4. That's not art - that's funerary decoration

The grave goods of our society.

[Buzz Clik]

6. I'm a bit of a knuckledragger myself, and I have a low threshold for what I consider art.

But anything that pisses off Michelle Malkin has merit. http://michellemalkin.com/2005/05/31/special-report-a-closer-look-at-anti-bush-art/

[marmar]

5. What do you mean? We've got the incomplete Xanadu Mall in the Meadowlands as a legacy.....

[jberryhill]

7. I can see taking the kids there in 200 years

Truly a monument for the ages