Hmm. I'm watching the New York City newscast: subway bomb in Times Square. Nothing major — one cop sent to the hospital with burns, major for him, but nothing that shrieks TERRORIST ATTACK. Unless it's another test. The next phase of the suitcase tests.

There I go again: paranoia. Suspicion is the sign of an unbalanced mind. I know, I know: we shouldn't leap to conclusions, but it's interesting how suspicion itself is now a conclusion. As though we're wrong to wonder if the bad guys might be up to something.

Bad guys! How droll, how 11/91, how amusingly Manichean. Have a nuance smoothie, man. Oceania is not at war with Eurasia. Oceania has never been at war with Eurasia.