Lately, our originality seems to stop at Dallas circa 1987.

Someone posted a link recently to James Howard Kunstler's speech at the TED conference, and as best as I can tell, hardly anyone bothered to look at it. Certainly no one commented on it. But Kunstler was talking about livable communities, not building th' biggest, tallest, shiniest, rootin' tootin' doodah on the prairie that would show all them east coast and west coast liberal latte-sippers what a Big League City® we are.

This 'energy tower' is just the kind of kitsch we don't need. It would be like building the world's largest Stuckey's or something.