Old Writing III: "we all want to feel like that woman: protected and reassured"

Or, Why All 9/11 Art is Bad. For some reason nobody seemed to have been willing to say this at the time.

"Because it's so obviously well-intentioned, it's hard to say this (but because I'm so disgusted at having to prove my antiterrorist credentials to even have the right to an opinion I'm going to): this song just sucks."

Originally ran in the Chicago Reader Jan 24, 2002