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For a long time, I resisted it. The subject was simply too BIG to contain mere politics. But now? Nine-Eleven is old enough to VOT...

Almost didn't post this year. (Still counts if I haven't slept, yah?) This was the first time since That Tuesday that I've actua...

14 years. Many decades. No time at all. Lost in the blur and the bustle of the day-to-day, eclipsed by the Meantimes...

I've got nothing. Every year, I steep myself in the memory of That Terrible Day. Every year, I strive to find something Meaningful, he...

When I was a kid in NYC, the local TV station, WPIX Channel 11, was commemorating an anniversary or somesuch, and arrived at a creative ad c...

Osama bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda is a scattered shadow of what it once was. A fragile but viable democracy hangs on in Iraq. There have bee...

[by Mr.Hengist] Now, me, I’m not big on anniversaries, not even my own birthday. Just not caring, is all. When I was a kid I looked forwar...

[by Mr.Hengist] The initial reports had the casualties at 80 dead and 120 wounded in Charsadda , Pakistan, on May 13, 2011. The attack was ...

[by Mr.Hengist] The news came late and I was already visiting the Land of Nod, during which all I could dream about was making stock. Vegeta...

This text field has been empty for quite some time now. I'd been watching footage of that Terrible Tuesday, trying to move myself to g...

[by Mr.Hengist] Awesome: The USS New York has set sail on her maiden voyage to New York City, where she will be commissioned into the flee...

I respectfully submit this essay by "Doctor Zero" at Hot Air . At this moment, I have nothing to add.

Lately, my head has been far too crowded a place. Family, professional, and other considerations have taken up most of the available real es...

Sitting in a bar near O'Hare Airport in Chicago, watching the planes break through the low-lying cloud deck and slice through the rain, ...

[by Mr.Hengist] I can remember walking to my car and looking up at a stunningly crystal clear blue sky and thinking how spectacularly gorgeo...

I was asleep when I got the call. I seem to have a way of being woken from sleep when disaster strikes. I was snoozing when the Challenger ...