While many of us were opening presents and eating mom’s homemade breakfast in our Christmas pajamas on December 25th, there were some people out there who were just not feelin’ the Christmas spirit.

Like, I don’t know, the man who attempted to blow up a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit?

That’s right. Nine years after September 11^th we have yet another man somehow successfully sneaking an explosive past airport security.

Apparently, Umar Farouk Abdulmatullab tried to blow up the plane with a chemical compound and a syringe that he had sewn into his underwear. He ignited the explosives, effectively burning his legs and an itchy NWA blanket, and was then subdued by a passenger sitting nearby.

There are so many things wrong with this situation we really don’t know where to start.

First of all, the fact that this incident happened at all is terrible and extremely disappointing. Just when we’re finally feeling safe, some hateful, misinformed extremist goes and ruins it for the rest of us. Do I feel comfortable getting on a plane again? Hell no. Is this one man’s actions fair to the many people of Nigerian descent who will now be profiled in this country? Absolutely not. Read More »

I’ll be the first to admit that I did some messed up shit to my frenemies during my younger years. One time in middle school, my friends and I poured Snapple and mashed strawberries in a girl’s backpack because we were fighting for absolutely no reason.

Seeing as our military isn’t in middle school (though they are in a similar predicament: fighting for absolutely no reason), I’d expect a little more tact from them. But apparently the U.S. military has come down with the mean girls-syndrome that I suffered circa the strawberry incident.

No, they didn’t mash strawberries in the backpacks of Iraqi extremists. But they did do some very Regina George-esque plotting to create a gay bomb to use against enemy soldiers. A gay bomb. Seriously.

A watchdog organization that tracks military spending exposed the U.S. military’s plan to build a bomb that could turn opposing soldiers gay—consequently shifting their focus from fighting to sex, CBS reported.

The watchdog group found that “the Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another.” Read More »