If the headline in the same article facetiously associating the erection of a new monument in Washington DC to the realization of Martin Luther King’s famous dream doesn’t irk you as being silly enough, the first paragraph in today’s NY Times article on the opening of the Memorial makes sure of it. It reads:

WASHINGTON — Now we know: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it leads to a picturesque glade beside the Tidal Basin, with the Washington Monument providing sentry.

Maybe isn’t it enough anymore to simply describe.