Open thread, September 11th, 2010

Well, it's that day again. Nine years on, what's changed? After Iraq, and the new quagmire in Afghanistan, it seems that our laser-like focus on what & who caused 9/11 is no longer with us. I can't believe we haven't caught Osama bin Laden yet. Look at what Eric Raymond is blogging about now vs. what he was blogging about in 2002. For the best I think. The whole affair with the Turkish commenters gives you a window into some of the stuff that I see, which I do not allow through the mod queue (and usually results in the banning of users). The quantity was greater than the usual, though the Jewish genetics posts invariably draw in a lot of crazies. Even the random post on Uyghur genetics will attract nationalists enraged that I suggested that Uyghurs have a connection to the Han Chinese. Speaking of what I let ...