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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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11 September 2001 - 8:59 pm
Many years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Everyone was talking about how big a tragedy it was, and I was siting in my seat in Mr. Crawford's English class not really effected by all the news. I feel much the same today. While I have been diligently following the news today, I haven't really been all that caught up in the tragedy.
In fact, I'm more upset by the stupidity of some of the people who have been posting things online or sending things to mailing lists that I am a member of. Let me say this now, I do not think that we need to retaliate within 24 hours of these events (an idea proposed by a gentleman on a mailing list I subscribe to). I would rather hit the correct target than be the first one out of the gate, if you'll allow me to mix metaphors.
To tell the truth, the thing that has me most worried today is Selective Service. The last time an attack of this size was made on the US ("December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy"), the attack served as a precursor for the largest military build-up in the history of our country. And one part of that build-up was the draft. I really would prefer not to find myself in the armed services in the foreseeable future, so that's what I've been thinking about today. But I'm rather selfish.
I'm done thinking about this today.
Posted by on 11 September 2001 at 9:01 PM
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