I think that the best linking weblog on line right now is Follow Me Here. Every time I visit I find a half-dozen or so excellent articles. Eliot must be a voracious reader, and his comments are insightful and thought-provoking. If you have never been to his site, go right now. Here are a few… Read more »
Posts Tagged: 9-11
America the Beautiful
The Sept. 11 attacks increased, rather than decreased, Americans’ expressed satisfaction with the way things are going in the country — one of the most intriguing public opinion shifts of 2001. Gallup’s December reading on satisfaction, at 70%, is the highest since February 1999. The October and November satisfaction ratings were 67% and 65%, respectively…. Read more »
Bin Laden on the Onion
“It’s not yet clear where bin Laden was,” Rumsfeld added, “but he seemed to be speaking from some sort of gigantic, bombed-out litter box.”
Travel
The airlines are dropping prices like mad lately. I can hardly believe that Delta Web Fares is offering round trip tickets from LAX to Rome, Italy for only $314. That ticket would’ve been triple that a few months ago. I saw a commercial yesterday advertising $99 – $199 one-way tickets on American to anywhere in… Read more »
Funny Mail
A 59-year-old man who received a suspicious letter with amorous writings and women’s lace panties turned it over to sheriff’s deputies, who stored it in a biohazard barrel before determining it didn’t come from a terrorist. [link via
FBI Warning
Saying it has received information that new terrorist attacks may be planned inside the United States or abroad in the next several days, the FBI on Thursday asked local police to be on the highest alert and urged all Americans to be wary of suspicious activity. Y’know. Just in case you were feeling comfortable or… Read more »
Bert
Bert is best known for his role on the long-lived Sesame Street children’s show, where he lives with his housemate Ernie. With all the hoopla surrounding Bert’s apparent link to the current news, it’s easy to forget that Ernie was a bit of a suspicious character, too. Did anyone else have an LP with a… Read more »
Separation
From the University of Florida’s Anthropology Department comes this article: Estimating the Ripple Effect of a Disaster. A related essay at Slate says, “According to their estimates, essentially all Americans — more than 80 percent of them — know someone who knows someone. We are all mourners at the second degree.” [link via Follow Me… Read more »
Day!
The female anchor on the local NBC affiliate continues to pronounce Taliban as tal-EE-ban – with the ‘tal’ sounding like ‘pal’. The male anchor pronounces it the way everyone else does. I don’t understand this. There’s a guy in my office named Ed. If I came to work every day and called him Eed, I… Read more »
WTC
The University of Sydney’s Department of Civil Engineering has a detailed and informative account of why the World Trade Center collapsed. [link via JJ]
Two Weeks
And now two.
The Daily Show
The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center and now it’s gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now… Read more »