>both towers are now down. Hope Doug's not in Manhattan right now...
I am, but aside from the smell, the buzzing helicopters, and the nonfunctioning subways, you're hardly aware that anything profoundly disastrous has happened five or six miles south.
No doubt thousands have died. It's scary to think of the consequences of this - Uncle Sam will be out for revenge, repression will intensify, and god knows what else.
Doug