Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Enough Already! -- 5:30 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

OK, I appreciate that it's been a year now since 9/11, but most of the media are beating it to death. It seems like the goal of most of the things on the radio and T.V. are to get us all desperately sad. I fear that the memory of those lost is being exploited or at least misused. It's good to remember. There's nothing wrong with mourning. But this is ridiculous. If all we do a year later is cry, then we've missed the point entirely. What we should be celebrating is that we are the United States of America. Even horrific, cowardly acts like those committed against every American last year have not weakened us or destroyed us. Let what has happened to the Taliban serve as a warning to anyone else who gives sanctuary to bin Laden and his roving band of idiots. You're next.

That's the last I'm going to say about this. I promise. I plan on spending the evening ignoring what is on T.V. and instead playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Every time I take down a Nazi, I plan on yelling, "Take that, Osama!" at the top of my lungs. To each their catharsis.

J.t.Qbe comments: What? The media exploiting something? What an unusual concept.

While I certainly feel for those who lost loved ones a year ago, I think that the rest of us serve far better by moving on, by remembering, by doing a better job at being our "brother's keeper". And my own catharsis will be Baldur's Gate and a nice Paulaner Salvator.

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