i'm not only talking about "bush did 9/11."
off the top of my head:
q. what city has the fastest readers?
a. new york. they can go through fifty stories in a matter of seconds.
back then, if you'd said "this is tasteless," you'd be told "grow thicker skin." i was young at the time and never questioned this, but in retrospect, it seems the social norm of "don't make light of tragedies" might have been load-bearing.
