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All of Italy has these pull cords in the shower

All of Italy has these pull cords in the shower

Carved Stone and Wood Hotel.jpg

Carved Stone and Wood Hotel.jpg

Troy and Ducati Heir

Troy and Ducati Heir

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

Daf Yomi

9/11 Nightmare Continues

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Is anyone at all shocked by this headline from the NY Times: ‘For the First Time, New York Links a Death to 9/11 Dust’? And a needed first sentence quote:

New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, has for the first time directly linked a death to exposure to dust [...]

Fox News 40 Year Recap

Some notes…

death of JFK JR. – who cares death of John Lennon – who cares death of Princess Di – who cares eve of Iraq invasion, 1 & 2 – scary, we are a f’ed up war mongering nation shots of 9/11 – do not need to see them, ever, please stop showing [...]

Umm Kulthum-أم كلثوم

I admit I know almost nothing about Arabs and the Arab world. My perspective is unrecoverably linked to the Israeli-Terrorist conflict, 9/11 and beyond. My interactions with Arabs have been limited either “westernized” ones and pleasant or in Israel and Jordan where they were not unpleasant but not exactly feel-good either.

In realizing that [...]

9/11 Personalized, Again.

Recall my post about this 9/11? Well I was clicking on something about events in the Plaza next to my building and came across this from the MMC web page:

I was the late night cleaing lady and saw Mr. Bane many nights, sitting alone in his office staring blankly into his computer. This [...]

Pathetic

Often, someone else says it so much better than you can imagine. I admire The Week and have purchased subscriptions for almost everyone in my family. Once again, proving why I enjoying reading it:

The Onion provides this (made-up) quote from New York Gov. George Pataki: “This vast chasm, dug at the very spot [...]

My 9/11

No need to rehash that morning. My life didn’t not, thankfully, include the death of anyone near to me. I will leave that to those who, in my mind, have earned the right to say something, because they lost something.

I have been trying to ignore most of it, because our tendency to wallow [...]

We Needed One Then. We Need One Now

I walk past a poster version of the above ad for the WTC Memorial in Port Authority everyday. I rankles me only slightly more than the poster about seeing something, saying something, or the fake paper twin towers, or the marine flag waiving over the exit, or the marker sketch of, I think, [...]