the Evil Line

Matt Yglesias is in awe of our amazing technology here in Louisiana:

Here in downtown DC, for example, the tallest office buildings are 110 feet tall. In Boise, Idaho by contrast, they have technology that’s allowed them to create a 267 foot building, and in Baton Rouge, they’ve somehow figured out that it’s possible to build a 450 foot building. If we could somehow import that kind of know-how to DC, then I bet people would be employed first building the structures and then working in the buildings. [...] But how on earth would we figure out how to build a 450 foot building? What magical technologies have they developed in Baton Rouge?

Our magical technology was developed by a wizard, but unfortunately the know-how died with him.