Ryan McKee, Asylum's resident genius, analyzes the latest Internet trends.

Architecture geeks are buzzing today about the opening of world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai. Over 2,600 feet, it dwarfs the Taipei 101 and Chicago's Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). It also takes the title of world's tallest structure today, wresting that honor away from the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, N.D.

Patriotic trend investigator Ryan McKee thinks the Chicago architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, the outfit that designed the Burj, has stabbed the U.S. in the back by creating such a powerful symbol on foreign soil ...