I don't know much about world affairs, but the nuclear war stuff piques my interest. I'm unsure about what is really happening in North Korea. From what I can tell, nobody is sure that Kim Jong il and the North Koreans ever conducted a successful underground nuclear test. It all seems sketchy. All I really know is that the North Koreans claim to have performed one good detonation. Maybe they did. But I'm not inclined to believe it. Kim Jong il seems like a wannabe who yearns to be the leader of a legitimate superpower. And getting in the atom splitting game is his ticket. But he could be bluffing. He's like the kid in high school who claims to be nailing a really hot girlfriend that lives in another state. But nobody's ever met her. Kim Jong, or KJ as he likes to be called(I've heard), is just trying to lose his nuclear virginity to impress the cool kids(China and the U.S.). He even claimed to do it on a Sunday night, when he knows that the most popular TV shows are on to distract everyone. Of course you could say you conducted a nuclear test in while everyone at the Pentagon is watching "Desperate Housewives". I watched almost all of "Desperate Housewives" on Sunday night, all because I saw a promo that showed Eva Longoria half dressed. Kind of pathetic, I know. I didn't watch it straight, I was flipping between the baseball playoff and the NFL game, but still. I watched 40+ minuntes of poor storylines just to get to that scene, and it turns out I saw everything there was to see in the promo. I hope never to see that show again. Felicity Huffman never should've done that movie where she plays a she-male, because now I can't see her without thinking about how much she resembles a she-male. Well, I lasted about half a paragraph writing about world affairs before I wandered back into pop culture. But it was still enough to fill a personal quota for me. I can now write about rappers and football for the next year secure in the knowledge that I did write one blog about North Korea and the state of the world. Coming soon to Brendan's Corner: How the reunion of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie affects our collective consciousness.