It’s not funny

Modern Americans are extremely irreverent, but I don’t recall ever hearing a single joke about 9/11. I can’t think of any other event that Americans don’t joke about. There are jokes about Jesus, blonde jokes, Polack jokes. I remember, shortly after the shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, you started hearing tasteless jokes. But not about 9/11. Of course, I’m not saying jokes should have been made, but the fact that they weren’t, despite our irreverence and lack of respect for other sacred cows, is perhaps indicative of how deeply angry the terrorist attacks made most Americans. So it’s no wonder Bush was able to steamroll the nation into war.

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