It's not official or anything, but I've seen 9/11 referred to as Patriots Day. I don't mean to belittle the pain and anguish of a this great nation but scads of people die en masse every day all over the world in wars and civil unrest and suicide bombings and retaliation bombings and typhoons and from famines and the list goes on! Just like I have a cushy life, as a nation it seems we've been sheltered from the violence of international politics for a long time. That is, until 09/11/01. That's not to say that any culture or nation deserves to have violence visited upon them...I shouldn't continue this line of thought.
In other news, the Sarah Palin thing is just obnoxious. The New Yorker Out Loud put out a podcast that was really about Cindy McCain (very interesting, I knew almost nothing about her) but delved a bit into Sarah Palin. It was refreshing because it really captured my impression of her: she is a mean person. That is a fairly simple evaluation but, as the podcast says, she's this good speaker who delivers these nasty, mocking jabs with a smile and little wrinkled nose. Are we really supposed to be taken in by that? I'm not going to go on I'd just be regurgitating what is in the podcast.
And now for something completely different, a post from reddit (this site is linked on the side bar of my blog) gave me a chuckle. I've always been a believer in the "if your number is up, your number is up" philosophy of death. This story, I think, underlines this concept (the story was posted under the title "F*ck, the bear really wanted to eat this dude...").
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