As a fellow New Yorker, I feel you on the OWS stuff. I really want to support them -- do, in spirit. But I feel like the "Occupy" element of the protest is just not sustainable, and not necessarily good, either, for a number of reasons (safety, disrupting small business -- the things you mentioned). At this point they don't really need it anymore, so I hope they don't try to find a different area to Occupy.

Tomorrow will be very interesting. Potentially exciting -- my mother, who was a try hippy back in the day, keeps comparing the OWS spirit to the spirit of the sixties (though, she doesn't actually live here, so) -- but also potentially a big problem. I work in Union Square, where there's supposed to be a big student protest in the afternoon, so we shall see.