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Friday, September 14, 2001
If you're like me, you took the time to light a candle for the fallen at the WTC. It was almost comical, as I purchased a cheap disposable lighter that I couldn't make work, ended up using a long match anyways. I've added a Red Cross donation box somewhere on this site. If you can, please use it. Your donation may help in a small part to combat this tragedy.
Posted by Jeff Boman on Friday, September 14, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Thursday, September 13, 2001
All day again, the majority of channels carried news about the World Trade Center disaster.
Considering how significant this tragedy was, that's not surprising... but it's still emotionally draining.
At least the speech from my Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, was good. Generally, I don't like him... but he said words similar to what I did earlier today: that an ethnic race can't be called to blame for the actions of a few.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Thursday, September 13, 2001 | link me Seymour!
I've been hearing sad news all morning, news that shows the Holocaust didn't teach us a strong enough lesson in the face of this tragic horror... all over the world, people are attacking anyone looking even a bit Arabic.
Even if they don't read this, I hope this message gets through by osmosis: A race isn't responsible for this, individuals are. Break the cycle of hatred.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Thursday, September 13, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
This man was there. Fortunately, only on the subways and streets around the WTC, and not in them.
Many of these photos are images burned into our minds already, but the account of someone actually there is very poignant.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Wednesday, September 12, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Understandably, it's still been an emotionally gruelling day... one with a lot of anger and hatred thrown out - but much of the anger was misplaced in my view.
Last night, I spoke of my disgust with the words of the leader of the Hesballah.
This morning, Osamu Bin Laden was quoted saying that while he wasn't responsible for this atrocity, he wanted to congratulate those who were. Am I deathly in hatred of him? Yes.
The news all showed the same group of Palestinians rejoicing at this action. Am I deathly in hatred of them? Yes again. Such disregard for innocent life is an abomination
Does this mean I now hate all Palestinians, or Muslims, or Arabs? No.
One group of slime does not an entire race make. I have friends who are practicing Muslims; I don't hate them for their beliefs.
As a Jew, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, a culture and ethnic race attacked and killed just for living a mere 60 years ago, I can't perform similar acts of generalization.
How sad that the nation-state of Israel has forgotten those lessons, and helped to fan the flames of similar hatred now.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Wednesday, September 12, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
It was so nice to see how concerned about the loss of life in these attacks that Hesballah and other alleged terrorist group leaders were... having the leader of the Hesballah make a point of saying not to believe Israeli views about this act of war.
Gee... so many people killed, I really care what ideology is taken for the attacks... not.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 | link me Seymour!
We've had the first Pearl Harbour of the new century, and I'm both heart- and stomach-sick.
You've likely been hearing about it on all the news: before 9 am, a plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City.
At first, it was thought to be a horrible tragic air accident - but at 9:03 am, as Good Morning America was showing the accident, another plane came into view, colliding with the second tower in a horrific fireball.
Shortly thereafter, another plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington. Others were then reported over various areas in the US, which may have been intended for strategic targets in the areas.
Before 11 am, the news announced that the Trade Towers were destroyed, and they showed gruesome footage of the buildings imploding.
Other footage was shown of revellers on the West Bank, and Palestinians also rejoicing that the major power (the US) had been shown to be defenseless.
I wanted to reach through my TV to strangle these vultures. Hoow many tens of thousands of innocent lives were ended by this? How can anyone rejoice at such suffering.
I visited the World Trade Center more than 20 years ago. When I think of how I once looked at the city skyline from a building now fallen, I feel like throwing up again.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Sunday, September 09, 2001
Welcome to the 21st Century... too bad people are still as narrow-minded as in the 20th.
Here's the deal: For Better or Worse has been a comic strip in newspapers for decades. It's also one of the few strips where the characters have been aging.
The current storyline has the son (Michael) getting married. The storyline has him getting one of his best friends as best man... said friend happening to be gay.
Cartoonist Lynn Johnson has the mother of the bride worried about this - but the Bible Belt seem to be up in arms about it in real life. How dare she have a gay character in her strip, and how dare she put him in this storyline.
My question: how dare you people still be so closed-minded and ignorant? Gay people have been a facet of life since time began - and in the grand scheme of life, it doesn't matter one way or the other.
I'm disgusted that such narrow-minded people still exist.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, September 09, 2001 | link me Seymour!
I watched an hour or so on the Comedy Network today (our answer in Canada to Comedy Central).
It was amazing to see Victoria Jackson on Bizarre. It was also a trip to read the copyright notice at the end for 1984 - that reminded me I wasn't yet a high school graduate when the show was still on (I graduated in June of 84).
The funny thing was seeing Victoria - who made her fame on Saturday Night Live... and the very next show was an old (1970s) episode of just that show!
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, September 09, 2001 | link me Seymour!
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