Now That The Storyline Is Intact, We Can Make It Look Like 24 Again

Now that it’s clear that the mayor was wrong (and our apologies to the governor for doubting his national security intelligence credentials), and that this was Full-Fledged Terrorism With International Links!, it’s important to raise the stakes again — try freaking the fuck out of everyone for no fucking reason, to start:

The car bomb planted in Times Square came within a “millisecond” of causing “mass casualties” with a 30-foot high fireball, an explosives expert said.

Kevin Barry, a retired NYPD bomb squad supervisor and the head of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, painted a gruesome picture of what might have been if the bomb had gone off Saturday night.

“Several hundred” could have been killed or maimed by a fireball exploding from the Nissan Pathfinder found loaded down with firecrackers, fertilizer, gasoline, propane and alarm clocks.

A “millisecond”?