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A lot of the 9/11 anniversary coverage struck me as distastefully tasteful. On the morning of Sept. 12, I was pumping gas just off I-91 in Vermont and picked up the Valley News. Its lead headline covered the annual roll call of the dead -- or, as the alliterative editor put it, "Litany of the Lost." That would be a grand entry for Litany of the Lame, an anthology of all-time worst headlines. Sept. 11 wasn't a shipwreck: The dead weren't "lost," they were murdered. So I skipped that story. Underneath was something headlined "Half a Decade Gone By, A...

MemoDate: 9/11/06 To: OBL From: Philadelphia Cell Allah Akbar, God is Great!Greetings from the City of Brotherly Love, honorable Sheik, on the fifth anniversary of our great success against the Infidels. Your words are again proving to be correct. The enemy is not worthy. They really are the Google-glorifying, Blackberry-addicted, lap-dance loving, Starbucks-sucking, Gap-obsessed sectarians you believe them to be. They have the attention span of young goats and lack any resolve to fight you on your terms. Praise be to God, on Sunday night, no less than the so-called American Broadcasting Co. televised something called a "docudrama" about our...