Kaboom! It's not just a classic Atari game. It's also a 2-mile wide mushroom cloud over N.Korea. The N.Korean government now says that the big mclargehuge explosion was a planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project. Riiiight.

Colin and Condi are all too quick to dismiss the possibility that it was a nuclear test. But wait...weren't these two eager to spread the fear of Iraq giving terrorists a nuclear weapon? "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," is how I think Condi put it. And that was talking about Iraq, a country that didn't actually have a functioning nuclear program. But North Korea, a country that has promised to go nuclear and which might have already? Nah, it must've been something else. Nothing to see here. Place head firmly in the ground. Maybe we'll find out in a couple of years that there was a P.D.B. that said, "North Korea determined to detonate nuclear bomb," and Condi will describe it as a "historical document."