Month: September 2001

From Fucked Company: “Just trying to help (and for this they get a “luck”), Clear Channel, owner of over 1,170 radio stations, has banned these songs from their airwaves. Included are songs about war, the word “Tuesday”, and even “Walk Like an Egyptian”.” I can see why they are banning some of these songs, but come on… “Walk Like an Egyptian”? There are several others that make me think to myself, “ok, I can see the logic behind that, but isn’t that a bit much?” Because I don’t think they need to be banned. Not all of them. Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York”? Nina “99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons”? Martha & the Vandellas “Nowhere to Run”, Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel” or Peter and Gordon “I Go To Pieces”? Simon And Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”? Even my James Taylor song, “Fire and Rain” is listed. I knew it would be. Along with Don McLean “American Pie” and Buddy Holly and the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day”. Hmmm. I don’t think they should all be banned. Will banning them change the events of the past week? NO. That’s like saying if we stick our head in a hole in the ground then things will just stop happening around us.

From Everlasting Blogstalker:

As I left the Union Square, I turned back to look at all the people who’d come for a sense of community or to make a public statement. I’d never experienced anything like it. So much emotion, so many opinions, and yet all peacefully co-existing, even with the volatile tempers. And I realized the terrorists didn’t win. I know now they can’t. They destroyed buildings and planes and people, but they didn’t touch what we’re really about. We take our personal freedoms for granted, but you know what? That’s good. That means they’re so deeply a part of who we are as Americans, we can’t exist without them, we just won’t. Even I would enter hand-to-hand combat for the right to be an opinionated asshole.

Needed: a new age of enlightenment. Link thanks to Openwire, who has some good commentary going over on Metafilter. What liberties are YOU willing to give up?

Thank You and The World Mourns.

Naomi & I were talking today, and she commented on how this was not just a national event but a global event. Looking through these photos made me realize that the WORLD is supporting us. I shared the links with Naomi, and I think I made both of us cry…

Are the Children All Right? When Helping Children Handle the Terror, Remember: Your Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Houston’s Islamic Students Head Back to School: “I think that’s the feeling all Americans want to have,” Houston’s Anti-Defamation League spokesman Martin Cominksy said. “They want to live freely and safely and not be burdened by this kind of unconscionable revenge and terrorism that is directed against the wrong people.”

Business Fire May be Hate Crime: “It’s a dream, everybody’s dream to live in America and become an American”

Survivors Share Their Stories; “I Saw Things No One Should Ever See” with links to many more articles at the bottom of the page.

Newsweek’s coverage with numerous moving articles.

Bin Laden’s fate left up to clerics: Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban leader will let a grand council of Islamic clerics decide whether to hand over suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to the United States, the Taliban-run radio said Monday. Hmmmm… what would you do if the USA has said it will come after you for harboring him?