This is How it Works

Okay, so let me tell you about today. This morning, I can't really remember why, or what triggered it, I decided I wanted to know more about 9/11. Sadly, because it happened just at the point where I don't really remember it, I've always been aware of its existence but never really known the full scope of it.  So today, I spent the morning googling the whole thing - I read up on the planes, the rescue operations and President Bush. I watched news coverage of the whole day. I watched the movie United 93 , about the fourth plane that went down in a field in Pennsylvania when the passengers tried to take it back from the hijackers. I watched a documentary called Voices From Inside the Towers all about the victims who called 911, called their loved ones, called their friends and families in the moments before they died.  In total, the four attacks killed 2,996 people and injured 6,000 more, and caused billions of dollars of damage, as well as causing immense terror ac...

It has not been a great few weeks. Actor Powers Boothe, musician Chris Cornell, and Jame Bond even to the last, Roger Moore have died. Zack Snyder has taken a step back from directing to grieve the suicide of his daughter which occurred in March. Bodyguards for the Turkish president attacked protesters in Washington DC. A man mocked and punched a guy with cerebral palsy in the face for no reason, completely unprompted, just because he could.  Karl Oliver used the term "lynched" when describing the removal of racist monuments, apparently having never heard of the concept of irony: A man was only given 240 days in prison for drugging and raping his sister. Yes, that actually happened this week, because we apparently live in caveman times. Dani Mathers, who you may remember a year ago took a picture of a naked 71-year-old woman in a locker room with the caption "If I can't unsee this, you can't either", went to court to ple...