Writing in the NYT magazine, former U.S. counterterrorism official Richard Clarke says the Bush administration isn't spending enough on the terror fight at home.

I've been spending way too much time on terrorism and such stuff lately, and as a result, I've let important stuff pass me by -- like the Ralph Klein Photoshop contest at Rick Mercer's blog.

Here's the direct page links:

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Some very funny stuff in there, folks! Kudos to all those mischevious, creative Canadians who entered!

The NYT's Nicholas Kristoff has just returned from North Korea. To put it simply, he thinks the Bush administration's policies towards that country are bass ackwards.

And he sees the confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea over the North's nuclear arsenal as "the greatest atomic peril since the Cuban Missile Crisis."