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Abousfian Abdelrazik seeks $500,000 in damages

The scale of Breivik’s macabre achievement is likely to dwarf any political dimension it may turn out to have

Nine years after 9/11, America is suffering continual attacks on its home soil

Like bin Laden, Abdulmutallab wanted to create chaos.

One thing I forgot to include in my weekend post — about why Unhappily Ever After has turned out to be the better of Kevin Connolly’s two shows — is this clip, which may be the closest thing this show had to an iconic moment (well, that and all the scenes of drunken audience members hooting at Nikki Cox), and sort of sums up why this crass, stupid, cheap (it was literally the lowest-budgeted scripted network show of its era) has gained a certain cult following. The hero talks to his imaginary friend about how to deal with his daughter’s unsuitable boyfriend, and they spend three minutes discussing the best solution: kill the boyfriend, and then kill six random strangers so that the police will look for a motiveless serial killer.

Andrew Mitrovica traces the tale of Canada and the 9/11 terrorists.

A little quiz that has been floating around the internet for the past few years serves up a series of quotations on the subject on industrialization, consumerism, and the despoliation of nature. The reader is then invited to guess which document each passage is taken from, Al Gore’s book Earth in the Balance, or the Unabomber Manifesto.  All in fun.