While the NLRB slips it past us at home...

...North Korea has gone completely il (not the good ill often cited by the Beastie Boys) with this nuclear test ridiculousness. It's like I've seen this before, in a horrible dream - no wait, it was Team America World Police.

Is it a coincidence that a new prime minister with tough guy foreign policy beliefs just stepped in for Japan? It's hard to figure out what the hell is going on, but in any case, and particularly in Bush's case, ugh. Clinton's style was to engage in diplomacy, and it seemed to keep this sticky stuff down. You know what happens when il gets lonely...