When you gotta go, you gotta go!

I can't help that I'm within a two minute walk from Ground Zero, that is, AT Ground Zero according to some people. I had finished my meal at the neighborhood McDonald's; a burger, milkshake and fries served on hallowed ground. My dining done, I decided to take a walk. Next thing you know, the meal is passing right through me. I know. TMI.

So, I stopped into the nearby strip club -- to use the restroom, mind you, NOT to look at the scantily clad women getting even more naked at the site (well, close enough) of the actual Ground Zero.

I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace and was subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow. So I was reluctant, but it had to be done. Pants around my ankles, I dropped a log in the loo of the 9/11 strip club.

Why they allow a McDonald's and a strip club so close to, that is, right at the hallowed ground of 9/11, I don't know. I suppose that until naked women and men dressed in Ronald McDonald clown suits crash planes into a lower Manhattan landmark, NYC will continue to have cheap burger joints and thinly veiled houses of prostitution at Ground Zero.

The issue that seems to be polarizing people is this: should we allow those of the Islamic faith to enjoy the fruits of democracy, including the right to build a gym club with a prayer room in the general vicinity of a culturally sensitive site? About that, I'd say, the day we start worrying about the rights and freedoms of Muslims is the day we invade a Middle East country, overthrow its dictator, spend trillions of dollars in the effort and have many more Americans die in that war than died on 9/11.

In any case, should some Muslims try to build such a thing in lower Manhattan, we should insist that it at least not be as close to Ground Zero as the all-American McStomach Flu joint and the Naked Dancers for Freedom club. We can never allow prayer, so close to sacred ground, get in the way of our grand and gaudy shrines to boobs and burgers.




(Inspired by, and some lines directly ripped off from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/23/charlie-brooker-ground-zero-mosque)