The elegant "Towers of Light" memorial, from the site of the World Trade Center in New York City, last night. Photo by me.
The chart that says it all. From RT, via Kasama.
Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
Read this:
ReplyDeletehttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
i was in manhattan for a friend's birthday with some of the other scientists i work with. we are graduate students, so we are perhaps more multicultural than your average group of folks, but among our ranks last night were 10 american-born citizens, one romanian born who just got her citizenship, a french citizen, a canadian citizen, and a girl from taiwan who considers herself a chinese citizen.
ReplyDeletepredictably intoxicated, we got on a train to come home around 1:30 in the morning and some dudes got on the train SCREAMING the lyrics to "god bless america" at the top of their lungs. they then proceeded to call us and the ticketers fascists and communists for asking them to shut their fucking mouths.
that mentality is EXACTLY what caused september 11: the concept that american ideals supercede the rights of anyone else, such as the right to not lose your mind on public transit. and if you disagree, you are the enemy. since it was technically sept 11 at that point, the irony was thick.
keep at it, i thought. and when the next huge attack comes, be sure to blame everyone but yourselves. and those same people probably get mad when gays throw their gayness in someone's face. pathetic.
that mentality is EXACTLY what caused september 11: the concept that american ideals supercede the rights of anyone else, such as the right to not lose your mind on public transit. and if you disagree, you are the enemy. since it was technically sept 11 at that point, the irony was thick.
ReplyDeleteAmen, freebones.