The problem with the internet defined.

Jim Lileks, as usual, nails it:

If I could sum up my general disappointment with the internet: architecture threads turn into political threads. Political threads never turn into architecture threads. At least architecture threads allow for a certain amount of humanity; you never see anyone get hysterical and cat people out of the tribe because someone mounts a qualified defense of modernism.

The remainder of today's column (which wanders off in his typical fashion) can be found here