Electric Josh

So it seems that The Atlantic has put every single article behind a paywall. What a drag. It'll join Salon on the list of publications I would like to read but not enough to pay. Now that I won't be reading I won't know what I'm missing, and won't be inclined to start paying. Alas.
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We've marked the anniversary of the big terrorist attacks mostly by ignoring them, which exactly what various fearmongers (both Arab and American) would like you not to do. Packed up the kid in the car and went and hung out in Boston with some friends. (Thanks, Lee!) If fear crossed your mind today and you see nothing wrong with nonsense like this pap asserting like an unoriginal sixth grader that terrorism isn't a threat, it's a promise, then you should be ashamed. I mean, really. Most of us big kids grew up somewhere between the 1950's and the 1980's, when it was pretty much assumed that on any given day the world could end because Johnson and Brezhnev (or Reagan and Gorbachev, or whoever) couldn't quite work out which of their deputies were fighting which anonymous proxy wars. Am I really supposed to change my daily routine or my vote just because Tom Ridge is bored or John Ashcroft can't find any more harmless hippie comedians to harass? For the record, here's the best acknowledgement of the attacks I've seen (though only until Monday, apparently).
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That new camera mentioned the other day pretty much rocks.
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