It is also Harry Connick, Jr's birthday.

Along with Mickey Hart, Leo Kottke, Brian de Palma, Moby, and my cousin.

9/11 didn't impact my life. The recession Bush/Cheney blamed on it did, but not the event itself.

I've always thought it was pretty eerie too, that the Bush White House celebrates it's own 9/11 ceremony on the South Lawn--replete with odd and bizarre customs, including leaving the nation out of it. How strange is that, now really?

I suppose you could say it isn't strange at all, considering the bubble the Bush White House lives in.

I mean, take the inflation of gas prices and how out of control and frightened Americans are by it. Bush hasn't said squat about it. No Clintonian "I feel your pain" speeches. Just being totally hands off, silent and remote.

So much for compassionate conservatism, eh?