Well, these comments are going to sound sicko, but from where we live and work, about six miles north of the bomb site, it's as if WTC never happened. Had it not been for TV we wouldn't have known anything was amiss. We first heard about WTC from a relative in Florida who called. Now, TV and the condolences-and-rebuild-ads-fat NY Times is our source of police beat news. We have a project under construction downtown in the West Village close by one of the hospitals ready to receive victims. For a few days we had to skirt the hospital, but not now. There were hundreds of photos of the missing posted there, but not now, all erased. Looking down 7th Avenue there's a void where the Towers once loomed, but now a wisp of smoke. But the Towers are not really missed, if you don't buy the fabricated outcry, for they were always a bloated blur on the skyscape, now more monumental as debris and lurid media images than ever in real life. No doubt about it, WTC has impacted others more than most bunkered and isolated New Yorkers who give not a shit about their predatory neighbors, indeed fear and hate them along with the rest of humankind -- except as rubes to be hustled. Once I cared, then I learned it's best to fake it, and if you can fake it here you can fake it anywhere -- just keep those subsidies coming with the dirt cheap, expendable, immigrants, and those cash-bloated tourists and congresspersons now buying a view of The Heap of Heaps, NYC's godsent First Wonder of the World. You can bet NYC is set to capitalize on chem-bio showtime. Statue of Liberty, ha, ha, ha! Eat your heart out. I love NY.