Flutterby™! : Sept 11 madness

It's one of those days. I'm trying to get stuff installed on my laptop so I can escape the horrible noises of construction across the street, so a post I otherwise wouldn't make. Columbine thought the uproar over Eric Fischl's "Tumbling Woman" sculpture might be up my alley. I thought it was good that we had some transgressive reminders that we're angry because people died in horrible ways, rather than this lovey-dovey towers of light crap that sanitizes everything, but I've been trying to stay clear of the media hype and the public hysteria in general. Then, a few hours later, I come across this: NY 9/11 parade organizers couldn't get doves, so they bought squabs at a Newark market in the hopes that they could do one of those "uplifting dove releases":

Many of the birds plunged into the Hudson River, smacked into plate-glass windows on office buildings or careened into the crowd. One perched atop the hard hat of a construction worker whose company had helped clear ground zero.

Great, more manufactured sentiment by people way out of touch with reality.