Comments on: The Edifice Complex http://www.flashpointblog.com/2008/07/20/the-edifice-complex/ The Unpredictable Union of Pragmatism, Idealism, and Cynicism Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:04:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Daily Links | Daily Dixie http://www.flashpointblog.com/2008/07/20/the-edifice-complex/#comment-32682 Daily Links | Daily Dixie Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:31:42 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/?p=1693#comment-32682 [...] Flashpoint: The Edifice Complex You don’t have to travel far here before you run into some structure that bears [Richard Shelby’s] name even though you and I paid the bill. [...] [...] Flashpoint: The Edifice Complex You don’t have to travel far here before you run into some structure that bears [Richard Shelby’s] name even though you and I paid the bill. [...]

]]> By: johnboy http://www.flashpointblog.com/2008/07/20/the-edifice-complex/#comment-32521 johnboy Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:19:50 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/?p=1693#comment-32521 I would love for someone to introduce a bill that makes it Illegal to name a building after any living person if taxpayer dollars are used. Of course this discussion should not be necessary. The politicians' lack of any class is amazing. In Alaska, seems like everything is named after Ted Stevens now. I would love for someone to introduce a bill that makes it Illegal to name a building after any living person if taxpayer dollars are used. Of course this discussion should not be necessary. The politicians’ lack of any class is amazing.
In Alaska, seems like everything is named after Ted Stevens now.

]]> By: walt moffett http://www.flashpointblog.com/2008/07/20/the-edifice-complex/#comment-32417 walt moffett Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:44 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/?p=1693#comment-32417 Always chuckle when I drive by Trent Lott International Airport in Hurley or read the street signs around the B'ham Race Track and see those paved roads going no where. Always chuckle when I drive by Trent Lott International Airport in Hurley or read the street signs around the B’ham Race Track and see those paved roads going no where.

]]> By: Lee P http://www.flashpointblog.com/2008/07/20/the-edifice-complex/#comment-32393 Lee P Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:37:14 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/?p=1693#comment-32393 According to Mr. Fund: "Until roughly the 1960s, people had to die before a grateful nation memorialized them in granite." I'm all in favor of reviving that old statute. According to Mr. Fund: “Until roughly the 1960s, people had to die before a grateful nation memorialized them in granite.”

I’m all in favor of reviving that old statute.

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