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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath,

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--Edward Gorey

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Who Needs Terrorists?

For that matter, who needs improvised fertilizer-based explosives and the like?

Read this story of a truck driver, younger than I, taking a turn too fast with nearly twenty tons of presumably legal explosives in his rig, and creating an explosion that effectively vaporized the truck and left a 25-foot-deep crater in a Utah highway.

Are there no precautions for loads this size? Are modern explosives, the legal kind, still so volatile? Have you ever felt less safe on America's highways? I haven't.

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