Kim du Toit has a simple and straightforward analysis of why men are less scared by terrorism.
Loretta discusses something near and dear to my bachelor’s heart: frozen food.
In an old post of mine, Three Canadians, Peter, Paul, and Stink, plea to us to not bomb them. They asked really nicely, so let’s leave them unbombed.

North Korea supposedly now has nuclear missiles that are able to hit the Western U.S. So what. We’re able to hit all of them. And I bet ours are faster, too. They could launch a missile at us, and we could wipe them all out before they were able to find out if their missile hit. And what strategic importance would it be to hit our west coast? They’d just wipe out the Hollywood liberals, the least warmongering among us. Those left would be our most warmongering, and America would probably now be so belligerent that would not only wipe out North Korea but probably also start randomly attacking Canada and Mexico because they’re near us.
Of course, we need to get missile defense to protect our west coast; those idiots in Hollywood are ours to kill. Once we have missile defense, the North Koreans can’t even pretend to threaten us. We’ll just keep badgering North Korea saying, “Why don’t you nuke us? Huh? We’re really scared, you know. Why don’t you teach the evil imperialists?” And they’ll just continue to bluster about how they can fight anyone, but it will be much more muted now. Then Bush can offer to have talks with Kim Jong Il. As soon as the talks start, he can grab Jong in a headlock and start giving him a noogie.
Jong: Ahh! My Poofy hair! You imperialists will pay with…
Bush: Why don’t you nuke me, Jongy-boy? Why don’t you nuke me?
Jong: …will burn while the citadels…
Bush: Come on and nuke me, Jilly-Jong. I dare ya.
Jong: Oww! That noogie hurts! Please stop!
Bush: Then say you’re a girl!
Jong: No.
Bush: Say it!
Jong: I’m a dainty little girl.
Man, diplomacy will be so cool once we have our missile defense. We’ll easily be able to get back at those weasely European countries because we could nuke them and they can’t even touch us. We can make all French citizens have to kneel to the West five times a day and surrender. The Germans will have to inhale helium so they don’t sound so scary when they talk. And all the waffles in Belgium will be ours. Also, we’ll declare that all oil in the world is technically the property of the United States by virtue of us being so kickass.
So get to it, you rocket scientists. There are too many uppity countries out there who need to learn their place.