Catching Up

I am way behind.

I haven't come back here in about a month. I've been swamped and haven't been focusing. God knows there's been no shortage of subject matter...
- Katie Couric
- Paris Hilton
- 9/11
- NFL
- Visiting Relatives

All in good time.

Since today is September 10th, the trendy thing to do would be to be philosophical about September 11th. Plenty are already doing that with entire libraries being written about the subject this week. What I'd like to know is how many of these people with radical opinions or poetic ideas about where we are and where we're going actually spent any time in New York or around Ground Zero in the days, weeks or months following September 11th.

Did they see the hundreds of posters all over the city of the missing men and women? Did they walk the streets and see the smoke still rising from the ruins? Did they pass the dust covered storefronts and see the shop displays buried in debris, frozen in time? Did they hear the silence in the streets and the stores? Did they smell the smoke that hung over the city? Or did they watch it all from a safe distance and now make a lot of noise because they think they "get it"?

I know the answer, and so do you.

I'm over it. It isn't the politically correct thing to say, but I'm absolutely over it. I want to move on. So do millions of others. When will we be allowed to?

This has nothing to do with Acerbic Wit. It just is what it is today. And tomorrow will be worse.