First we busted him on a jury pimping for fellow lowlanders MVRDV, then he called us Karl Rove. Today, we bring you Aaron Betsky, Director of the Nether Regions Architecture Institute and expat San Franciscan as he just absolutely goes haywire defending that city's latest controversial mod-arch addition, Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum. And he telegraphs his Conflict in the first graf. We don't know exactly what fishy rituals of graft and seedy dealing are afoot—was Betsky on the jury??—but you can be damn sure we'll be psyched when you write in and tell us.

· Give Golden Gate Park a Makeover [SFGate]
· Orange Alert! Whither Dutch Ethics? [The Gutter]
· Gutter Mailbag: Dutch Ethics Redux [The Gutter]

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