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Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM  
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OOPS He did it again?

Damage control: About that N. Korean missile test, "something went wrong," a U.S. official says—it seemed more like a half-kiloton blast than the five to 15 kiloton boom the rest of the world measured. (via Lucianne.com)

Psych!: Japan says N. Korea tested a second nuclear explosion, then, oops, fails to provide any data.

The good son: Nicholas Negroponte, brother of Reagan/Contra torture pioneer-turned-National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, has reached a deal though his charity to get $100 laptops in the hands of 1.2 million Libyan school children.

Babs blabber: Suspected right wing serial heckler targets Barbra Streisand as she pokes fun of Bush at her Philly concert in a sinister plot to undermine the president's critics.