While over at the Austinist, they’re of mixed minds about the whole Extreme Makeover: Home Edition phenom, we’re even less conflicted: Catching week-before-last’s dry-hump of a 9/11 responder’s grief made us want to retch a little – and we’re pretty sure it wasn’t the subpar pizza at the buffet playing the show.

Well, the Statesman‘s also got their mind made up – devoting not one, but two articles about the show – including an essay from the winning family.

As goes the Life and Arts section, so goes the world.

This article appears in February 16 • 2007.

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