DESSERTS

Last week, New Yorkers went ballistic when Homeland Security announced it was slashing the city's anti-terror funding. Then on Monday, the Centers for Disease Control announced that they were cutting our bio-terror funding, too. Nobody understands how this could possibly be, but it seems perfectly clear that there are two primary reasons behind the cuts. First, over the past four years, there were all those millions that either weren't spent or can't be accounted for. Nebraskans may not need it, but at least they're a little more responsible. But maybe there's a bigger reason. Remember before the attacks, how the rest of the country hated NYC? It's the way things have always been. But suddenly after the attacks everyone loved us for all the suffering we went through. Well, as the years passed, New Yorkers refused to let it go. Everything was "attacks" this and "9/11" that. It's hard to say you're "standing up to terrorists" when you're whining about it all the time. And as things returned to normal in the rest of the country, they came to hate us again. Funding-wise, maybe the hope is there'll be fewer of us left to kvetch next time it comes down.