Monday, December 19, 2011
Mainiac Humor...
Mainiacs are those who hail from the state of Maine. They have a strange sense of humor:
Via my mom...
Via my mom...
Kim Jong-Il is Dead...
Apparently of a heart attack at age 69. His twenty-something son, Kim Jong-Un, is his annointed successor.
Kim Jong-Il's death means the fight for succession is on. Kim Jong-Un, from everything I've read, is unlikely to be capable of holding onto power. We should be cautious about such outsider assessments, though: I remember very similar things being said about Assad before he took over from his father. Perhaps Kim Jong-Un will be similarly surprising. If not, however, then we could be in for a stretch of ugly on the Korean peninsula.
The Onion already has its take on Kim Jong-Un...
Kim Jong-Il's death means the fight for succession is on. Kim Jong-Un, from everything I've read, is unlikely to be capable of holding onto power. We should be cautious about such outsider assessments, though: I remember very similar things being said about Assad before he took over from his father. Perhaps Kim Jong-Un will be similarly surprising. If not, however, then we could be in for a stretch of ugly on the Korean peninsula.
The Onion already has its take on Kim Jong-Un...
New Photos Released...
Some of these, like the one at right, are in color. This always throws me, as in my mind WWII was entirely in black-and-white...
