Please forgive the foray back into politics, but I was in NYC on 9/11, and I hope that I never have a day as strange and sad and overwhelming as that day ever again in my life. I remember parents coming to Beacon covered in ash, only wanting their children to be with them. I remember the smell of a city that smelled like death. I remember emailing everyone I knew to tell them I was o.k., I remember emailing everyone I knew who worked downtown, trying to find everyone. I remember Kat coming to Beacon with a pizza in hand, because she figured I would have fogotten to eat. I remember a city that rallied around itself and refused to lay down and die, even when faced with disaster. I remember feeling the love of the rest of the world as we mourned our dead. And I will always remember watching the Bush Administration use our tragedy as a justification for a war that most of the New Yorkers I knew didn’t want. I remember our outrage as he claimed he was going to war with Iraq in our name.

So it’s with all those memories and many more that I watched Keith Olbermann talk about the five years since 9/11. Scathing isn’t a strong enough word, but it’ll have to do. Needless to say, I agree with him.