Yesterday I went to Austin's housewarming party. I think it's warm enough now. It was very fun.
Today my parents came to Toledo for lunch and such. We drove around downtown and I showed them the courthouse I work at. It was interesting.
I watched this show tonight called "The War at Home" or something that was on after the Simpsons. It was interesting. I felt like it was trying to be the new "All In The Family" by trying to be brutally honest about how family life really is. It definitely wasn't for the "7th Heaven" crowd, but it wasn't as forthright as I thought it could be. It was less poignant social commentary and more just shock value, and for that I don't give it much credit. I wasn't really impressed but I did think it was funny they said hymen on tv.
The colleague said the other day that she just wants to sit around all day today and watch tv about 9/11. She said she thought it was awful to have things going on the same day as 9/11. I told her that no one cares anymore. That might have been exaggerated, but it seems like the whole day has slipped from our minds. It seems like the whole day was for naught. Have we learned the lessons from that day? Have we grown or matured or become more compassionate, tolerant, loving? I don't see it. And I think that's what makes me the saddest. Though it was beyond our individual control what happened on 9/11, it is within our control what we do with the days afterwards, and we have squandered these days. The victims deaths are rendered more and more meaningless with every passing day that we keep people in poverty, or we persecute based on race or religion or anything else. It's sad.
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I agree with your observation about 9/11. What's sad is that Bush could have really made this day sacred and made it a day that we remember every year and learn from. But instead he used it as justification to kill tens of thousands of innocent people and thousands of U.S. soldiers. I think for a lot of people 9/11 is kinda of tainted now - which is really, really sad.
Steve wished me a happy 9/11 just to spite me and then said -- if you can't wish someone a happy 9/11 the terrorists have won. I figure they did. He said they didn't because they weren't able to effect our every day lives at all. Which in my opinion isn't because they didn't win but because we are damn lucky. But it made me think -- is that a little win in our column? Or is it total and complete BULLSHIT that we didn't allow it to effect us more. I guess that's all I ask on 9/11, for everyone to be effected. For one day. I want to know what happened to Lisa Beamer. The US sucks.
The Colleague
Patriotism has become a fad.
Beckie
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