For years I have wondered why I would ever want to have cake, except to eat it. Thankfully, the Discovery Channel's miniseries Manhunt: Unabomber solved this riddle for me over the weekend:
[Fitzgerald] recalls how a transposition of verbs in the manifesto written by the Unabomber helped lead to a closer identification of Ted Kaczynski in April .
The latter used the phrase "You can't eat your cake and have it, too," instead of the usual form, which is "You can't have your cake and eat it, too." Like most people, Mr.