Now More Than Ever

May 6 - On August 2, 2001, a story headlined "Requiem for a Silly Idea" appeared in this space.  In it, I described various reasons, some of them almost honest, for ceasing publication of the Moron's Almanac.  Six weeks later I was gagging on the smoke, dust, and fumes from an unthinkable attack on my city.

I was glad I didn't have to be silly that day.  I was glad I didn't have to be silly for the next several days.  Then I heard one idiot after another explaining that irony was dead, that skepticism and cynicism and healthy irreverence had all been buried under two-hundred million tons of ash and dust at World Trade Center Plaza.

That got my dander up.  (My dander had been down for some time, having had his ass kicked in a Hollywood barroom in the early 1990s.)  I started a website dealing exclusively with news of the war, which was all anyone seemed to be talking about.  I called it WarNewz and I've been doing it for about six months.

One morning last week at the gym I noticed CNN doing a fifteen-minute segment on People Magazine's "Sexiest 50 People on the Planet" issue.  They were talking to Apolo Ohno, who'd apparently made the list.  Later I saw Fox News Channel do a fifteen-minute segment on Robert Blake.  It got me thinking.

Times change.  And then they change back.

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