Watch him now; here he come
So the most fascinating thing about bin Laden's death* to me: an NPR report this morning said that the majority of people celebrating outside the White House last night were young. Like, late teens/early twenties young. This seemed mystifying to me, so I spent a goodish amount of the morning thinking about it. Then realized: oh, right. 9/11 was almost ten years ago. Which means there's a crapload of young adults walking around for whom Osama bin Laden was pretty much the fucking boogeyman of their childhood.
I honestly have no idea how to relate to having a childhood fear that can be shot. It must be exhilarating, though.
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*Okay, second-most fascinating thing. The really-most fascinating thing is that two days ago, I honestly would have bet cash money that he died sometime around October, 2001. I mean literally, we got the news last night while sitting in Longman and Eagle that Obama had a weird Sunday night press conference coming, and Carl said, "It's got to be something huge. Like 'they killed bin Laden' huge." And I said, "that would be a hell of a trick, since bin Laden's been dead for ten years."
WHOOPS.
I honestly have no idea how to relate to having a childhood fear that can be shot. It must be exhilarating, though.
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*Okay, second-most fascinating thing. The really-most fascinating thing is that two days ago, I honestly would have bet cash money that he died sometime around October, 2001. I mean literally, we got the news last night while sitting in Longman and Eagle that Obama had a weird Sunday night press conference coming, and Carl said, "It's got to be something huge. Like 'they killed bin Laden' huge." And I said, "that would be a hell of a trick, since bin Laden's been dead for ten years."
WHOOPS.