From HARPER'S WEEKLY:
*North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il was said to be at risk of losing his access to McDonald's hamburgers and Hennessy cognac if sanctions on luxury goods are imposed in response to his country's recent nuclear testing. *U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld showed reporters a satellite image of North Korea. "Except for my wife and family," said Rumsfeld, "that is my favorite photo." * Canadian troops in Afghanistan were finding it difficult to destroy forests of ten-foot-tall marijuana plants where the Taliban hide. "That damn marijuana," said one soldier. * Right-wing columnist Christopher Hitchens confessed that he had eaten a dog. * A study suggested that an increasing number of British students are working as prostitutes in order to pay their university tuition, and California researchers found that women dress more fashionably when they are ovulating. * Dubai's ruling family was sued for enslaving children as camel jockeys. A family representative argued that the suit was spurious, since Dubai has replaced child camel-jockeys with robots. -- Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal
