The media coverage of this was hysterical, and way overblown. But that's what happens when the lights go out in the media center of the world. There are a number of important stories that need to be told about the largest blackout in the history of North America (as they kept saying on all the news programs tonight). But it sure as shit ain't the stories being told by the mainstream media. Oh no. The big news there were all those human interest stories about those special New Yorkers...

And the "9/11 flashback stories"...

Yawn. Spare the rest of us the self-absorbed, narcissistic New York stories, please.