[ via RC3 ] Keith Olbermann’s writing for Salon:
I can summon effortlessly from my memory an image of an NYPD officer standing outside the New York Stock Exchange that morning. There was still so much smoke downtown that until I got within a few feet of him, I couldn’t tell whether he was wearing glasses. I was there covering the aftermath for a Los Angeles radio station, but the officer wanted to talk baseball. I finally interrupted him and gestured at the stockbrokers walking up the center of the street as if to a concentration camp. “You don’t understand,” the cop replied. “I can get through this because I know that tonight at 7 o’clock I can put my feet up and watch the Mets and pretend they matter.”
and
“What? Did nobody think of having Samantha [Sex in the City] swim out to troop ships?”
