9/11/02: Contenders for Most Tasteless

As The Onion might ask, “How Are We Observing the One Year Anniversary of September 11th?”

1. Yahoo’s homepage is in monochrome. To remind us of the tragedy while searching for keywords “Hot Nude Asian Teens”.

2. My daily spam from E-Diets came with the following message: “Much as we have to fight for our nation’s freedom, we also have to fight for our personal freedom from overeating.” Accompanying illustration: a picture of a fat kid waving an American flag.

3. People keep forwarding me e-mail with subject lines like “Nevar Forget!” and containing animated American flags, or American eagles or weeping-eagles-in-front-of-flags. Apparently they are observing the anniversary by crashing my e-mail server.