If you watch all the big news channels covering the Big Blackout of '03, it's kind of funny to notice that while most of the East Coast is blacked out- including Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto- yet all the focus is on New York. Citizens of Detroit could have gone all Donner Party last night and seen half of the city eat the other half due to a lack of electricity, but nobody would have cared. You'd be watching MSFOXNN and hear some guy going "oh yeah, Bob, everyone here is calm and quiet in New York and everything seems to be going well everywhere. The airports shut down, the power's totally out, but everyone seems to be kind of peaceful and serene about everything. Makes you proud to be an American. Oh, and we're hearing reports of mass cannibalizing in Detroit, but, let's take it over to Anne Coulter who'll explain why Liberals are responsible for the blackouts. And later, how this will affect the Laci Peterson case."

And speaking of New Yorker's, I proudly predicted to a friend last night mass rioting, looting, and all sorts of other Lord of the Flies type activity. Nothing happened. What the hell? That's not the New York I know and love.