Just saw this on the corner

I'm in New York, and was walking home from dinner with my friend Kevin when I noticed the floodlights in the southern sky. I asked what that was about, and suddenly it hit us, the World Trade Center.

I've just read Bush's speech he gave this evening, supposedly commemorating the fifth anniversary of the attacks. It's all about Iraq. Surprise. What a pathetic little man. Rather than give a speech that Ronald Reagan might give, about our sorrow and the hope for our future, Bush decided to go political, giving the nation a laundry list of how great he is, how wonderful HE has done, and by implication, why everyone should vote Republican in the fall. The man is simply pathetic. Today isn't about Iraq. It's about the dead. It's about our grief. And about our future. It's about all of us. But it is most certainly not about Iraq nor George Bush's personal report card.

With all of that in mind, it was nice to turn the corner and see the lights. They reminded me of the beauty and energy and life of this city. Of what we've lost as a nation, and of the future that still awaits us.

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