[oyez]

I think its stupid to protest the war around people that were a witness to 9/11.

[AUsome Joy]

I agree. Almost everyone around here (I'm in NJ) either knew someone in the towers or knew someone who lost someone in the towers. The people here still feel a deep grief. We will never forget and can't understand how so many seem to have forgotten. My daughter was in the towers, and we have a good friend whose son was almost killed at the Pentagon.

I can really understand Giraldo's motive for wanting to get close to the action. He lost friends and so did Keith Olderman who is coming back to MSNBC. He said he had 5 friends in the towers and was deeply changed by it.

[Tokhtamish]

The 60's counterculture came from San Francisco, not from Andy Warhol and Greenwich Village. In California the weather is always wonderful and living is easy. In New York the weather is only sporadically wonderful and only the tough get ahead. New York never had any use for hippie dippie "love and peace" crap because we were never as spoilt as Californians. New York, unlike the Bay Area, never accepted that everyone has a right to a free ride.

Make a New Yorker late for work or late for anything for that matter and you've got a world of trouble.