Below The Beltway

Sometimes, its an underground nuclear test by a regime run by a nutcase:
TOKYO, Oct. 9 — North Korea declared on Monday that it had conducted its first nuclear test, asserting a claim to be the world’s newest nuclear power and drawing strong international condemnation.
The South Korean government informed officials in Washington that an explosion occurred […]

When we last left the world that Harry Turtledove has crafted in seven books starting with How Few Remain, the Confederacy, firmly in control of Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party was launching its Operation Barbarossa-like attack on the United States and war was once again returning to the North American continent.
In Return Engagement, the […]

Yesterday’s game between the Buckeyes and Falcons was sort of like when Michigan plays Central Michigan, no contest at all.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -For Troy Smith […]

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way, but the Yankees were eliminated by the Detroit Tigers:
DETROIT (AP) — As a reborn baseball town erupted in splashes of orange and blue around them, the Detroit Tigers danced in the infield, kicking up dirt like kids on a sandlot.
They grabbed Jim Leyland, hoisted him on their shoulders […]

It looks like Fidel Castro may have terminal cancer:
Ever since President Fidel Castro was sidelined for what was said to be abdominal surgery last July, Cuban officials have maintained that the country’s leader will return to his post. ”We will again have him leading the revolution,” said Foreign Minister Felipe P?rez Roque just two days […]

Blogging has obviously not been much of a priority this week. Work has kept me busy and I’ve been too tired at the end of the day to sit in front of a computer and write much of anything. Hopefully, things will get better shortly so, be patient.

Things are getting tense on along the 38th parallel:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shots were fired Saturday along the heavily armed no man’s land separating the divided Koreas as regional tensions mounted in anticipation of communist North Korea’s plan to test its first atomic bomb.
South Korean soldiers fired warning shots shortly before noon (0300 GMT) […]

It took until the last day of the season, but the 2006 baseball post-season is finally set in stone.
The full schedule can be found here, and it shows the Yankees facing the Tigers in the opening round while the Mets face the Dodgers. Sounds like fun, now let’s play some baseball !.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Senate race between George Allen and James Webb has become one of the dirtiest in recent memory, now it looks like it’s having an impact on the image of Virginia as a whole:
RICHMOND — Virginia is taking it on the chin these days.
Its legislature has become synonymous […]

At the end of Harry Turtledove’s Days Of Infamy, the Japanese empire was firmly in control of Hawai’i, the Americans who had tried to defend Oahu in the months after the attack and invasion of December 7, 1941 were POW’s, and the Kingdom of Hawai’i was restored under a puppet King and Queen hand-picked by […]