twenty-eight years and a million words
I really am getting the full Tokyo experience. Another typhoon is lashing the city with wind and rain, today. Umbrellas are pretty much useless when the wind picks up, of course. It's not a tropical downpour, but it sure is a lot of water.
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009