Just as Los Angeles pretends to be a suitable home for several million human beings, when it is, in truth, a horrible sprawling sham packed with overpriced stucco hovels on tiny tracts of land, a gigantic human mistake that demands resources pumped and trucked and shipped in from faraway places, so, too, does... [blah blah blah some TV show sucks]
via salon.com
I will have to remember this sentence construction the next time the analogy is appropriate.
