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So it's 9/11 again... Actually, it isn't. When we talk about "9/11" we mean September 11, 2001. Today, however, is September 11, 2010. This 9/11 isn't really The 9/11. The only relationship between today and the 9/11 that happened 3277 days ago is due to our calendar, which is related to the Earth's position in its orbit around the Sun, which we only really care about because … [Read more...] about So it’s 9/11 again…

Exactly why terrorists attacked the United States nine years ago is still debated. One fact that is clear, however, is that the United States is a special and unique place in the world.When terrorists killed nearly 3000 random people on American soil, they ended up killing not just Americans, but citizens of 76 other countries as well. … [Read more...] about A Global Attack

AP writer Meghan Barr has an article about dead letter handling for zipcode 10048: It is the kind of holiday mail that might have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail: a special gift offer for a facial at a local spa. Only the address on the letter no longer exists. And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago in the … [Read more...] about Dead Letters

2,996 By one estimate, that's how many people died in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. It's also the number of people being memorialzed today in the blogosphere. Each person is being memorialized by at least one blogger. The official list is here: http://www.dcroe.com/2996/?page_id=2 That page is down right now because their hosting service has cut them off, presumably … [Read more...] about 2,996

Reason magazine has an open comment thread for 9/11 thoughts. Here's mine: I remember watching the towers burn in real time as it was happening, and I remember wrestling with the fact that it was too late. No matter how rich and powerful and capable we are, we could never bring back all the people who were murdered by the crashing planes, by the roaring fireballs, and by the … [Read more...] about Fourth Anniversary