Bits from around the World & Web

Starving populace or not, it seems North Korea can still flex is nuclear muscles.

A tit-bit about the lesser-evil argument on Capital Punishment from one of my favourite sources. 

In the land of American politics entertainment we see yet more evidence that Palin’s outrage is a nicely staged publicity stunt.

Unrelated image of the day

Just to prove that Aus is as messed up as the rest of the world we have a pregnant 12 year old sparking the education vs intervention argument across the Aus blog-sphere. That’s a whole year younger then than the two I had to deal with while in the Health System.

Obama goes in to bat against the blood-sucking behmoth that is the American Health Care system. 

On the light side “Two Perth hospitals admitted 97 people claiming to have had their drinks spiked over the past 19 months. Tests revealed none of them had actually been drugged.” So no more excuses when you wake up next to the boss/sister-in-law/coyote 

..and for readers of Korean out there here is a little bit more bad publicity as a man executes his child hit-and-run victim after taking him from the hospital. <Here> in English

Yep.. still unrelated