Personally, other than football, I stayed away from the TV today

[scheming daemons]

Like Krugman said (far better than me)... 9/11 should have been a nationally unifying moment.


But Bush/Cheney and Co. fucked that up.


History won't be kind to them.


I visited Shanksville in July on the way back home from picking up my daughter at camp. First time I'd ever been there.

I wanted to honor those folks on Flight 93 without all the hustle and bustle and bullshit of the anniversary date when all the rightwing nutjobs would be there.

Those folks on that plane didn't share Bush and Cheney's vision of the world, I'm utterly convinced of it. But that didn't stop Bush and Cheney from bastardizing their memory by co-opting their "let's roll" battle cry.


Fuck you, Bush. Fuck you, Cheney. Fuck you, conservatives.

[MrSlayer]

1. I wasn't aware there was anything other than football on tv today.

All day NFL for me. But I agree with your sentiments, the last line in particular.

[exboyfil]

7. Except for Monday Night Football

Week 1 in the books for not watching a down of football this year (either college or pro). I made a vow this year to myself that I would not watch football this year. I did it for three reasons. The first was the silly strike in pro football. The second was seeing tuition go up at our local university while millions extra is spent on sports programs. The final reason was that it was taking too much time that could be more productively used to study and help my children with their schooling.

I go most days without turning the television on. If it was not for the wife, I would have long since dropped cable.

[scheming daemons]

8. There was no strike in football this year. It was a lockout. BIG difference.

[MrSlayer]

9. I'm glad that you have been able to thrust it away so easily.

As that seems to be what you want to do. I like to watch football and will continue to do so. Good luck in your endeavors.

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Is it ironic that tonight, the Jets won? n/t

[joshcryer]

3. Meh, I don't even watch TV except for a couple of shows I see online.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Got back in town from my three day road trip on the Denali Highway.

Couldn't give a rats butt about all the other garbage.

[Parker CA]

15. How cool! If you happened to take pics and can post them, I'd love to see them. Climbing Denali is

one of my ten year goals.

[alfredo]

5. I knew it would be pulling off the scab. I don't need to be reminded over

And over again.

Other than the Jets/Dallas game, the games kinda blew.

[SusanaMontana41]

6. Me too, for the most part.

I did watch for the millionth time "The Man Who Knew" on PBS. Great documentary about John O'Neill, a retired FBI agent who died in WTC on 9/11.

[Zax2me]

10. football was drenched in 9/11 rememberance today.

Didn't you notice?

[scheming daemons]

12. Not when you have DVR and watch with the sound off

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Tennis here.

Not a football fan...and not a fan of all the smarmy 9/11 hand-wringing, either. So I watched the US Open stream from their official site. Women's Final was pretty exciting! ;-)

[Maraya1969]

13. I watched nothing. I felt a sadness all over me.

[pansypoo53219]

14. me too.

with a barefoot pal in his converttable on a gorgeous day, explored downtown milwaukee, looked + found the pabst brewery, got into the pfister hotel barefoot. peed there as well. lol. ate out at a pub. no teevee. little npr coverage on the web site, but no memorial.
took over 400 photos.

[Kalidurga]

16. 10 years later

..I feel all the coverage is intrusive. I can't imagine what it would be like to lose someone and then have the media thrust the loss in my face on the memorial day of the event. So it is not that I want to forget about what happened in a way I wish I could, but I am not ignoring the events. But, I think at some point we should all just back off and let the families mourn privately if the wish or if they want to hold a public event then we should allow that as well, but the point is at this juncture it should be about what the families need, not our need to be voyeuristic.