Reply #24: Here's where I was on Aug. 11, 2001

[Hissyspit]

I was at the World Trade Center. On vacation. From my job as an art history professor. With my girlfriend. Trying to get Broadway tickets. Here's what I said to her: "I don't understand why people don't think they won't try it again. Americans are so complacent. They won't use truck bombs again because it didn't work the first time." I then tried to imagine how much damage the buildings would do if they fell.

So when Condi said to the world "No, one could have seen this coming," I knew I was listening to garbage. Don't let anyone tell you they couldn't have stopped this. One of the great cons in human history.