Posted 6:38 AM by Gene

Today, we will be told so high-handedly, is a day to remember. I'd rather forget. It is impossible to forget when every tenth-rate news organization and TV station engages in its cheap anniversary-mania with a "tribute." Part of the problem is the fake Our Town routine news hacks must invoke to prove they're not the fiercest of snobs. But all this remembering does (as some hack named Jenkins attempted to say in a malevolent tantrum) is allow the holy cockroaches to reach forward from the past and inflict their obscenity on us through their images. And we are left with the present, the present of grossly incompetent officials, of life in a slough of despond, of finger pointing for finger pointing's sake. Honest, I can remember 9/11 -- and I didn't get up until about 11 that day. Let us leave the past to the past, and try somehow to overcome the deep blue national funk that threatens to sink everything in its path.