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Sep. 11th, 2005 12:12 pmI've just looked at the date.
Oh my- 9/11!
Why wasn't I apprised of this? Why weren't the papers full of commemorative stuff?
I guess because we've moved on. We have Iraq to worry about. Katrina has changed the paradigm just as the attack on the twin towers once did.
This is a fast-moving century.
We're packing more history into the available time than we ever did before.
Oh my- 9/11!
Why wasn't I apprised of this? Why weren't the papers full of commemorative stuff?
I guess because we've moved on. We have Iraq to worry about. Katrina has changed the paradigm just as the attack on the twin towers once did.
This is a fast-moving century.
We're packing more history into the available time than we ever did before.
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Date: 2005-09-11 06:42 am (UTC)But finally I think I have to agree with Churchill. "Democracy is the worst form of government- apart from all the others."
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Date: 2005-09-11 07:03 am (UTC)Churchill... so smart despite all of his critics.
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Date: 2005-09-11 07:56 am (UTC)I'm not an uncritical admirer of Churchill's. He was wrong about a lot of things- but wonderfully right about One Thing when it really mattered.
He had a great gift for phrase-making too.
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Date: 2005-09-11 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-11 08:10 am (UTC)