Roland Burris Memorial

[pmcd9]

File this one under totally creepy and weird.  Roland Burris has begun work on his memorial.

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I wonder if he'll have room for "First Black appointed to US Senate by tainted Administration." 

[jaydub]

I assume that's a scale model.  The real one will require 10,000 laborers working for decades to construct from hand-hewn slabs of alabaster and black granite, and will contain the remains of his wives and attendants to ensure a swift journey for his ka.