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Wednesday, January 31. 2007

John Edwards' "Two Americas"

Edwards' sleazily-earned wealth, and his 28,000 square-foot house for which he clear-cut many acres of woodland, convinced me that there truly are two Americas: He is in one, and I am in the other. But this house takes the cake. Wow.
Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:43 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Vain dumb-show I call it. The parasitic royals, nobility and English gentlemen pirates of the 17th and 18th century at least hired better architects. These new American houses are monstrosities.

Here's just one much more appealing example of conspicuous consumption http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Queens_House.html

Or this beauty http://www.holkham.co.uk/

Then again, the most beautiful house in North America, IMHO, is still Monticello. Efficient, beautiful proportions, a jewel in the landscape and the gardens are a dream...
#1 retriever on 2007-01-31 16:47 (Reply)
Well, at least, come the revolution, thousands of unemployed small-town MDs and their doctorless erstwhile patients, put out of the health system by the insurance industry's reaction to the lord of the mansion's tactic of deft and cynical jury demagoguing, will know where to find him, in their midnight pitchfork-and-torch, tar-and-feathers rage.
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-01-31 19:02 (Reply)
Okay. I'm in. That private gondola to the ski lodge did it.

Screw the bowling alley. Never scored above a 78 in the two times I played.

I live in the shadow of Monticello. The best part about Monticellow is seeing all the little 'inventions' Jefferson did on his own. That guy was so 'out of the box' it is to be humbled to be in his ghostly presence.
#3 Phoenix on 2007-01-31 20:32 (Reply)

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