World’s most offensive building

Glenn Beck made a big deal about this planned luxury high-rise in South Korea, which looks like You Know What. The builders apologized, saying it was supposed to be a cloud, and that it never occurred to them to think of 9/11. I believe them. What kind of builder would want to suggest to potential tenants an event in which skyscrapers collapsed, killing thousands? If you don’t think of 9/11, the design is very cool. For American eyes, at least, that’s like saying if you don’t think of the Kennedy assassination, Dealey Plaza is a nice place to visit.

(Which, by the way, it’s not. I remember my first visit to Dealey Plaza. I expected something grand and dramatic, given what happened there. It’s just a highway interchange. Completely uninteresting. If world history hadn’t turned on that spot, nobody ever would have noticed it. Maybe that makes it more eerily poignant, I dunno.)