The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

9 October 2006

While the world worries

The Top Ten Good Things about the North Korean nuclear test:

  1. Keeps the DPRK from being demoted to the Axis of Feeble
  2. Japan contemplating new, improved Godzilla
  3. Pyongyang, as a member of the Nuclear Club, is now liable for back dues
  4. Opportunity to recalibrate Richter scale
  5. South Korean arms trade profitable again
  6. It will take 10 years to save up enough aluminum cans for a second test
  7. Test site may actually be warm this winter, unlike rest of country
  8. President Ahmadinejad of Iran no longer a lock for Dork of the Year
  9. Beijing now wondering why they actually backed these loons
  10. Finally got that idiot Mark Foley off the goddamn front page

(Disclosure: I have not quit my day job.)

Posted at 2:36 PM to Listing to One Side


I remember how everyone yukked it up when the first attempt to blow up the WTC (a bomb in a van parked in the building's garage) failed to make much of a dent in the structure. It was such a big ha-ha, people got the idea a serious attack couldn't possibly happen.

You know the rest.

Hey, I want to believe in incompetent terrorists / bumbling despots as much as the next guy. I watched Hogan's Heroes like everyone else. I'm just sayin', you know, that nuclear weapons are like horseshoes. You don't necessarily have to nail it, and tyrants like those running N. Korea and Iran, well, they just keep a-pitchin'. And one nuke, even a piddling one, set off in a major urban area would make 9/11 look like a fire drill.

Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 3:48 PM on 9 October 2006

And one nuke, even a piddling one, set off in a major urban area would make 9/11 look like a fire drill.

So would our response, I suspect.

Posted by: McGehee at 10:47 PM on 9 October 2006

I like no. 1 the best.

Posted by: John Salmon at 11:08 AM on 10 October 2006