Things in the News

First! I can't believe that Iowa's big news flew so far under the radar. It's absurd. California's courts overturned their ban on gay marriage and it's everywhere, Iowa's courts do the same thing, and it doesn't even get a front page mention. I saw it on Feministing! Not CNN, not Huffington Post, freaking Feministing.

Not that Feministing is a bad site, I like it a lot. I'm just saying it's a blog, not a news site.

Also in the news, after months of international pressure to do just the opposite, North Korea launched a long-range ballistics missile. The US was attempting to keep NK from doing this, and NK basically backed itself into a corner where the only thing they could do was launch their missile. Remember, NK is nuclear-armed.

South Korea is obviously on guard. Interesting tidbit, my grandmother was a North Korean refugee into South Korea. She and her family ran away from NK and were homeless and starving for months.

Apparently, NK's missile fell into the Pacific Ocean. Huffington Post had aptly put title of "FAIL"

This is scary for a couple reasons. Since Iran is acting the same way, we have to make an example of NK so that Iran doesn't think it can also get away with this thing. That might mean we have to go into a "conflict" with NK. This will might result in a draft. I can only dodge a draft for so long. Once I graduate college, which I'll probably be doing in 3 semesters, I want to go to law school, but I'm pretty sure that grad school attendees are not protected from a draft. So there I go. And women don't have to worry for at least 6 months. They will be taken into the draft, but it will take 6 months for legislation to include them.

So, war with NK and a draft? Scary to moi. Hopefully we can settle these things without military intervention.