There's a million articles and news-stories about Sept. 11th right now, mostly lauding Bush for whatever reason, but here's an excerpt from an actually thoughtful one: The time is past when we can roll our eyes at political decisions and respond to new policies with dismissive jokes, as if the goings-on in Washington were a bad television show whose plot we only loosely followed. America is not some Them over there shaping the future. It is Us, right here, making a million individual, thoughtful decisions -- decisions to pay close attention to what our leaders are saying and doing, to consider consequences, to reason and question and examine.