Hmm.
I see that traffic is up for some reason, which is a shame because (as always) the site's not quite up to snuff, what with being halfway between the New Super Spiffy Astonished Head and the Old And Busted Astonished Head. Soon there will be more niftiness. I promise.
Some mild observations of no particular importance:
During an NPR report on yesterday's bomb explosions in the Philippines, the BBC correspondent mentioned that the acts are being blamed on the Abu Sayyaf group. He then went on to say, "America considers the organization terrorists because of their association with Osama Bin Laden." You could almost hear the sneer-quotes.
Actually, we consider them terrorists because they do things like bomb cathedrals, massacre Christians, and kidnap people and cut off their heads. Another punch in the head for the BBC, please.
In the course of the NYT's story on North Korea's admission to makin' the Big Nasty Boom-Booms, we get this paragraph:
"The idea of a North Korean nuclear arsenal immediately alters the delicate nuclear balance in Asia and confronts the Bush administration with two simultaneous crises involving nations developing weapons of mass destruction: one in Iraq, the other on the Korean Peninsula."
Can you hear it? See? We told you! Look! Now there's two parts of the Evil Axis to deal with! What're you going to do now, you dumb cowpoke?
Well, if the North Koreans had produced a sect that was knocking down American skyscrapers and punching holes in the sides of our destroyers with explosive rubber dinghies, I'd be a bit more concerned. But they haven't, and won't, so I think we can avoid the terribly complicated "prospect of fighting a two-front war."
Sigh. Back to spackling.
