ON NOT LISTENING TO THE 9/11 RECORDINGS, from Ambivablog. A small excerpt:

“One reason I don’t want to listen is that I’m familiar with an all-too-vivid account of what it’s like to be buried alive: my husband’s. As an 18-year-old slave laborer in a Soviet coal mine, in his third winter, weakened by cold and hunger, he was caught in a mine cave-in.”

Read the whole thing.