Okay, so tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of 9/11.  I can't believe it.  Time goes by soooo fast.  What all were you doing when you first heard about the attacks on 9/11?

As for me, I had overslept for work, per usual...and woke up to the Today Show and was just in awe and dismay over what I was seeing on TV.  I spent most of the rest of the day in shock...I went over to my friend Doris' house and hung out with her most of the day just talking and crying.  Then later that night I went in to work and made all these patriotic flyers and posted them all over work (a university).  I think most people appreciated coming to work and seeing them the next day...some of them actually stayed up for a few months.  

As bad as the events of 9/11 were, I really liked the feeling of unity I think most of us felt for a short while afterwards.  I think violent crime stats went way down for a month or two afterwards...and it just seemed like the first time for as long as I've known, that the country came together as one.  Too bad that didn't last.  

So what has changed in 5 years?  Well Britney went from being a sexy pin-up girl to a trashy, barefoot, flabby hillbilly with 1.9 kids and a lowlife husband.  Mel Gibson went from being an oscar-winning studly leading man to a jew-hating pariah.  Tom Cruise went from being a dumbass who made decent movies to a super idiotic dumbass who brainwashes people and jumps on couches.  Arnold Schwarzanegger went from being an action movie hero to governor of the best state in the union (yeah, i said it!).  No more Brad and Jen!  There's no more Friends, Frazier, Star Trek, or Dawson's Creek.  Instead, America is watching F-list celebrities sing & dance, Flava Flave trying to get laid, and Katie Couric has left her perky morning show to anchor serious news.  By the looks of it, I'd say the terrorists are definitely winning.   We need to fight back by demanding better quality on TV and in movies!