I started writing this at around 1 o’clock, then some friends came over and I stopped. It’s now almost 3pm and not much has changed. The protests should be winding down and here, less than a mile south, there’s almost no indication they’re happening at all. The sidewalks appear normal, there isn’t an excess of sirens and things seem basically quiet. The same goes for TV:

• CBS: NCAA Basketball
• NBC: Speed Skating
• FOX: Nascar
• ABC: Speed Skating
• UPN: FX2
• WPIX: Beastmaster
• PBS: Something boring
• CSPAN 1: Senate Intelligence Committee meeting from Tuesday
• CSPAN 2: BookTV from February 5, 1999
• CNN: In The Money
• CNN Headline News: Nothing important
• CNN World: “Al Qaeda – The New threat”
• CNBC: Infomercial
• MSNBC: ‘Showdown with Saddam”
• FOX News: News