I'm glad nobody got hurt and everything, but let's stop playing up how bad "this could have been." It was some children's alarm clocks loosely connected to fireworks, gasoline, and nonflammable fertilizer. It was as if Faisal Shahzad heard the television describe a bomb once a long time ago and tried to wing it from memory. The guy was less terrorist mastermind and more Shreeky from the Care Bears cartoon. And, yeah, news channels, it "could have been much worse" if it was a working bomb, or if the fertilizer was the splodin' kind, but it also could have been much worse if it had a miniature black hole generator or zombie plague canister in it, too.RATING: 100% (I guess it was the best kind of bomb, after all)
(PS - Don't do a Google image search for "Shreeky from Care Bears" with SafeSearch off, FYI.)
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There's a miniature black hole generator in David Brin's Earth, which you will never read. True story.
Also, telling the reader not to do a google search for Shreeky with safesearch off is like saying, "Don't think of an alligator."
(I'm pretty sure those are the kind of images that the FBI can take your computer away for looking at.)
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