Forgiveness

Charles Robert Jenkins, returning to his hometown in North Carolina 40 years after defecting to North Korea, was greeted with the same Christian forgiveness for which the South is famous.

Vera Outland, one of his loving neighbors, told CNN, "I would have liked to have seen him lined up and shot like a traitor."

Folly believes that this is actually a direct quote from the Gospels, perhaps a little-known appendage to the Sermon on the Mount.