By Mark | December 26, 2009
I woke up this morning to find my family watching FOX News. Apparently, a Nigerian man had attempted to ignite an incendiary device strapped to his leg on a Detroit-bound flight yesterday, while we were celebrating Christmas. Fortunately, it seems that this fellow, who was intent on killing hundreds of people, proved to be about […]
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The following email conversation was had by two straight, married, adult males while discussing the above clip and the subsequent comments by Andrew Sullivan. It was forwarded to me by one of their wives, who was understandably concerned. By the way, one of these two gentlemen, and I won’t say which, has aspirations of running […]
