This all brings me to the point — is “Ground Zero” particularly hallowed?

This all brings me to the point — is “Ground Zero” particularly hallowed? Across the street, you can

dig through bargain bins. All around the site are ugly, tacky, trashy, vulgar, base things for sale. In

this vein, New Yorker Daryl Lang set out to photodocument the vicinity. Titty bars, gambling dens,

Irish pubs, fast food, schmata hovels, and even, yes, tables on the street selling little jingoistic

lucite Twin Towers emblazoned with The Flag. And people are upset about an Islamic YMCA?

But even if it were a mosque, and even if this were “hallowed ground,” one can’t help but notice the

hypocritical heights to which the Stupid American will soar to keep something scary and alien at bay.

In the course of a Facebook conversation, someone mentioned a comment she heard from a high school

student, unknown to me (such is the nature of Facebook):

“Well, to be fair, we’ve built a lot of ‘Ground Zeros’ near mosques in the Middle East since 2003.

”

At least someone is thinking in our schools.