How stupid are we?

Forest fire? Is that the best they can come up with?

Let's trot out the givens.

There's an explosion in North Korea on September 9, the anniversary of its founding, a national holiday typically celebrated with government-sponsored military and nationalist displays.

The explosion happens on the site of the Yongjori Missile Base, one of the suspected sites of North Korea's uranium enrichment program.

The explosion produces a mushroom cloud two miles wide.

But a U.S. official says it's not a nuclear explosion: "The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire."

Maybe if a forest was doused in gasoline or liquid oxygen. Otherwise, c'mon, I know it's an election year, but how stupid do they think we are? Another argument against not using anonymous sources, people.

(But then I just finished battling my router to the death for 48 hours, so maybe I shouldn't talk.)

Burn in hell, George Lucas

Someone please tell me this is a Photoshop.

You know, George, people typically like making different movies rather than the same one over and over again until it's no longer worth watching.... I hope Sir Alec Guinness comes back to life and kicks down your door looking for you.

IGN interviews Jhonen and Rikki re: Zim

A nugget of the Jhonen/Rikki goodness, which includes pictures!:

"Ultimately, my idea was to take his sights off world domination, as ZIM begins to understand that there is a beauty in human life, an understanding that sets him on his path to becoming a public legal defender. I was very inspired by Ben Affleck's powerful courtroom scenes in Daredevil, and I wanted to move people to tears like those scenes moved me. But the show was canceled before any of that, thus leaving our audience of ten unfulfilled."