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pictured: The Yukon XL—"the national car of Texas"

I recently finished reading a book on TFK terrorism (essentially) called The Bullet's Song. As pretentious as this lead-in sentence sounds, I really did read the book and, in the process, learned some fascinating words.

Editor's Note: In May 2005, The Rake ran a story by former KSTP-TV reporter Dean Staley about Clancy Prevost, the man whose suspicions about his flight student Zacharias Moussaui led to the apprehension of the "twentieth hijacker" behind the 9/11 attacks. Before our story hit the street in print, but after it was posted on our website, the StarTribune, in an attempt to discredit us and Prevost, (and to take credit themselves for the story of who caught Moussaui) ran a front page story the day before