My Issue Hasn't Come but I Feel Like I've Read It

Karol Sheinin of Alarming News, prompted by the release of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, puts forth some feelings on 9-11 that are generally simpatico with my views (although everyone who experienced that day here in NYC has a deeply personal and richly textured view that is trivialized by generalization).

I'm not going to get into that but what struck me is the silly cover article in the upcoming New York magazine that she mentions. It hasn't come in the mail yet, but I feel like I've already received it and read it, because said magazine has become about one of the most predictable, and predictably jejune, fonts of NewYorkism. This is to say that, except for the merciful issues devoted to things like the best doctors or restaurants, you can rely on New York to offer up a beyond comical paean to the dysfunction, silliness and proud moral bankruptcy that defines elite New York City. A couple of months ago was the cover article that let us peak into the perfectly normal polyglot sexual existence (homo-trans/cross gender-sexual erotic everything, these kids are into it) of the typical NYC teenager. Then recently the cover attacking motherhood, depicting the seemingly perfect mother who, in her secret reveries, hates her husband and laments childbearing. Yes indeed, all 40-ish women in NYC really wish they could be like Miranda of Sex in the City. And now the "What If 9-11 Never Happened Issue." No, not that 3000 of our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, friends, wives, husbands, etc would be with us today and we wouldn't have suffered the deep national wound of being attacked by a mortal enemy. No, Al Gore would be President and we wouldn't have the Patriot Act! Yippee.