Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they could still flatten such popular hominid hangouts as Manhattan or downtown Des Moines.
I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.
I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.