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The Department of Cluelessness

My October rant about Counterbalance park included intellectually sublime comments about the park’s tagline, “An Urban Oasis.” Let’s examine it more closely.

It contains, gosh, three words.

1. An: A preposition. There’s nothing to complain about here, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
2. Urban: An adjective meaning, “in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town.” Seems fine to me. Move along.
3. Oasis: Whoa.

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Counterbalance Park design prototype

Counterbalance Park, Seattle’s newest park, located in lower Queen Anne, aka Uptown, sucks. It’s an incredible Fail. An unmitigated disaster.

The city calls this ode to concrete an “urban oasis.” I am not kidding — its official name is, “Counterbalance Park: An Urban Oasis.”

I knew it would be terrible when I first heard its name. Because when an official body extravagantly claims something, you can safely assume their claim isn’t true. If you think that’s too cynical, I submit the following evidence for the record:

• Exhibit A: A company frequently claiming to be “transparent,” isn’t
• Exhibit B: A sentence beginning with, “Let me be candid…,” isn’t
• Exhibit C: A pinch-lipped Bible-thumping crusader who says, “You should never…,” does
• Exhibit D: “Counterbalance Park: An Urban Oasis,” isn’t

I rest my case. Read more…

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