If it weren't for the NYT, New York, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice, I wouldn't feel as though I had any idea about what's really going on. Fascinating first-hand accounts are being posted as TANs on the strangest Usenet forums as well. Nothing's being printed in local papers around the nation, it seems; there's not really much on public radio; and people who live in the City and watch the networks say that they're really astonished by what the nation at large is not being told. Nobody fails to pick up and read documents from the snowfall of them. The Economist sheds light on this horror as viewed by the rest of the world. The Manchester Guardian with Le Monde has not yet arrived. Who would have thought of jalapeno cornbread as a comfort food? Turns out that it's very consoling. I think I'll make some more tomorrow. Seeing morning glories and moonflowers again, now that the weather has at last turned, is also consoling.