Football.

Sorry if you don't like soccer but this was so awesome I had to share it. Lamar Neagle is a Federal Way native playing for the Seattle Sounders. This was his first MLS goal and has to be the goal of the week.

Video Not For Human Minds II

Significance

Osama Bin Laden is Dead.

My first instinct is to try to find someway to be cynical or comment on our American obsession with revenge. Eye for an eye and all that.

But no.

On September 11 I was scared and uncertain as I know many others were. I cried. Not initially for the life lost but because I was truly scared. It was the first time I felt that deep a turmoil involving my own safety. The one constant of my life, the strength and invincibility of my home country seem to be collapsing before my eyes. Then I did feel an overwhelming sadness for the people who died. The pictures that I saw that entire day at school, in every class were, in a word, devastating. The pain and suffering seemed to be greater than just the individuals directly affected. It was pain and terror our young generation had never know and was not prepared for. The years that have followed have been hard and at times tragic for our country. Uncertainty and anger tinged we youth and was stuck down deep in us. After years we seemed to give up not only on finding Bin Laden but seemingly on justice itself.

Now after hearing the news that Bin Laden is indeed dead, I am happy. Not at the death of a man but at the liberation of a generation. The assassin of our innocences is dead and I say we deserve to celebrate.

My cynicism is intact but for tonight I can't help but put in aside and let a feeling of relief and triumph take it's place.

"I've never wished a man dead but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Mark Twain