Zoning doesn't always work:

Bill Thayer has an llustration of a papal inscription recording that His Holiness cleared out the square before the Pantheon of 'ignoble eateries" to secure the view of the monument.

It's now in a McDonald's.

In Atlanta,it is: or at least the half scale model built for an Iranian-American developer is.

One of the subcontractors for the rebuilding of a building at Ground Zero has been charged with stealing $1.2 million by endorsing invoices for work which was never done. The name of the firm? John Galt Enterprises. 

They should have known better than to hire a Randite.

When the media began saying that Roland Burris would accept the Senate seat even if he were expelled the next day because he wanted it on his tombstone,, I thought it was a metaphor.

But no. Jefferson settled for three boasts, and left a request in his will; Burris already put up the marble, and included his time as a foreign exchange student. Poor man, to be so driven.

More pictures here, (scroll all the way down)