Eleven years.

It's that day again. The day we are all forced to remember that we are not as safe and insulated from the rest of the world as we would like to believe. And, of course, that human beings can be extremely evil and diabolical.

We all remember where we were and what we were doing that day some eleven years ago, and we all swore that our lives would change when it was over. Americans came together and the country was one big Kumbaya moment. We found out that there were plenty of heroes to go around, and that even a monumental tragedy doesn't prevent our government from doing inexplainable things.

It was fun while it lasted, and then we went back to being the same mean nasty divided country that we were before September 11, 2001. We are in that place now (mean and nasty) but, just for tonight, (unlike the classless former VP) I am not going to contribute to the cattiness.