Blimey, for f***'s sake guys, get off Max Tone's back.
His joke is one of the milder WTC jokes doing the rounds at the moment, and long may they propagate.
< Me sick? Of course. Because black humour is an essential safety-valve for dealing with tragedy.
I was on the scene at Lockerbie within hours of the explosion, and the humour among the recovery crews, the hacks and the officials there as they picked their way through often unrecognisable pieces of people strung like skeins of sausages from the trees and rooftops was about the only thing that kept people sane - and some of the jokes were very sick indeed.
I've seen the same thing happen in such disparate places as Clapham, Zeebrugge, Kegworth, Vukovar, Vitez, Purley, Mostar and Ladbroke Grove - there are some events that would be too awful to comprehend if we dwelt solely on the pain and agony.
God bless the person who finds humour in the midst of tragedy and thus makes a small safety valve for those who are left.
Ask yourself why the jokes appear within hours of the event. It's not "sickos" and "twisted minds", it's ordinary human beings, unamble to comprehend the true awfulness of what has happened, but who nevertheless want to stick two fingers up to fate.
So, unless you've actually lost a close family member on September 11 and do find Max Tone's joke personally distressing, stop kvetching.
He's just doing what countless others have always done and tried to smile in the face of enormity. Maybe his timing wasn't ideal, and maybe just lobbing the joke into a forum like this isn't the most diplomatic way, but...
And to think that I thought it was Al Quaida and the Taliban who wanted to supress music, humour and irreverance. Doh!