to the thousands of civilians who have lost their lives, we will have a blogging Day Of Silence.

- Today I will not talk about Falwell and Robertson — Wil did all my swearing for me, and Rey responded as clearly as I probably could have.
- I will not indulge in guesswork about how the war will be waged. It is, after all, only guesswork. I will save the articles Randy sent me for another day.
- I will not talk about the games I ran this weekend, which, while cathartic, were disappointing at some levels.
- I will not recount my downtown adventures, because I need to have something to write about at work.

In short, I will be silent in my mouth and mind, because it’s noisy in my head right now, and it’s distracting me from living my life. I need to vegetate. Be still like vegetables, lie like brocolli.