washington sniper theories and tributes
The biking season has ended with the arrival of the fresh slushy white stuff and now I am back to driving pavement city again. That means listening to the talk box, and getting that familiar queazy feeling in my stomach again from listening to the silent majority unleash their opinion on everything from the best DVD that features “breasts”, to differing theories on the D.C. Sniper. Frighteningly, sometimes these come from the same caller.

Wired has a fine article on the nutty “conspiracy theories delivered in typo-ridden remedial English” by people like me who sometimes get carried away with their own personal weblogs and stumble briefly onto the broken streets of pseudo-journalism It’s like we’ve been kicked out of the bar at closing time and we hit the pavement to yell at the moon; no one’s listening except for those that like to point and laugh. The best “theory” is the one about Jimmy Carter who is personally funding the sniper. There has also been a site set up that you can input your own theories and I guess they pass them along to the proper authorities.

CNN has some nice pedestrian tribute designs for the rebuilding of the Twin Towers. My favorite is surely the all red, white and blue towers. You can’t get anymore ‘tribute’ than that. None more tribute.