Happy Explsives Day!

Of course today is Independence day and everyone's favorite way to celebrate our national independence is to blow things up. (I don't know what it is about this country, but we really like to blow stuff up. I think the explosion needs to be our national flower.) Anyway, we didn't get any spectacular fireworks here, but they looked kinda neat in NYC from what I hear.

In other explosives-related news, North Korea tested its virility today with the Taepodong missle. Unfortunately for North Vietnam, they've hit that age where they could possibly use a little help to get it up. (I love that part one of the subtitles in that BBC article is "Strong condemnation". Clever Brits.)

America, never one to be out done, managed to finally get their shuttle in orbit. If you hadn't heard they had to reschedule a few times; Mother Nature couldn't work us in her schedule until today. Anyway, we're in space, the North Koreans are militarily impotent and the New York skyline is exploding. Intentionally.