Dead things

Was going to call this Zombie Talk, but that's a little too cutesy. What concerns me is the number of dead ideas, projects, philosophies all stumbling around out there, unproductively consuming thought cycles in the public arena. They won't go away, they won't die...

Here in Lexington, Kentucky (where I'm based at the moment), we have a few possible zombies:
1) CentrePoint Project directly in the middle of downtown which converted historic buildings into... nothing.
2) Slot machines at horse racing tracks. Friend of mine in New Hampshire says a variant of this zombie is crawling through their legislature, too.
3) Senator Jim Bunning who, quite some time ago, declined his chance to seek re-election.

To be sure, there are much bigger zombies on the national stage (think AIG), but let's start locally. More later.