If you liked the Grifters, you'll love this: Watch Skeptic editor Michael Shermer participate in a classic con called the pigeon drop. Beautiful stuff.
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Ted Haggard is reduced in his circumstances. He and his family are living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment while he attends classes full time at the University of Phoenix, and he's also helping out in a halfway house for the homeless.
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" ... we are that way as the human animal, we have a conscience but we also want to go for the kill." you're right: powerful stuff.