oh, pretty please read Michael Moore.
His message from the 15th is pretty intense; there's a postscript at the end about an unsubstantiated rumor concerning footage from ABC that may show a fighter plane following the second plane that crashed into the towers. (wheeew! run-on from hell!)
but there are other good things there too.
I've placed a permanent link to his site to your left. But I'll probably just keep linking to his messages, because I find them so incredible; we so want to hear someone express what we ourselves are thinking, and he comes pretty close for me.
Lots of people at work today are still shaken up, still not sleeping well. I had some seriously bad and scary nightmares Saturday night. I bribed Spikey the Wonder Cat onto the bed for some comfort by putting the really soft fleece blanket on top of the comforter.
Things will never (trite alarm!) be the same. but we will learn to live this way, we will start sleeping better again, because we have to, and because the fuckin' alarm clock just went off and we woke up and joined the rest of the world. No other nation like ours has the privilege of living such a dream in such isolation from all the bloodshed.

oh, one last quote from Mr. Moore:
"Speaking of Strangelove, this past week began with one of the most powerful pieces on 60 Minutes in a long time. They laid it all out: How the United States -- and specifically Henry Kissinger -- plotted to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Chile in the early 1970s. The plot succeeded, President Allende was assassinated, and thousands of other Chileans were brutally tortured and murdered. Today, many within the new government of Chile would like to put Kissinger on trial for these acts of terrorism. Do you think the United States will give him up?
Well, that story was forgotten, 48 hours later, as quickly as it had been forgotten 30 years ago.
A few of you have written me to say, Please, Mike, don't talk about this stuff, at least not right now. We need to bury the dead.
I agree. And I apologize to any who have taken offense. No one wants to talk about politics right now -- except our installed leaders in Washington. Trust me, they are talking politics night and day, and those discussions involve sending our kids off to fight some invisible enemy and to indiscriminately bomb Afghans or whoever they think will make us Americans feel good.
I feel I have a responsibility as one of those Americans who doesn't feel good right now to speak out and say what needs to be said: That we, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants. I know it's a hard thing to hear right now, but if I and others don't say it, I fear we will soon be in a war that will do NOTHING to protect us from the next terrorist attack."