President Bush says North Korea "constitutes a threat to International peace and security".....So at least we have something in common.

A 50-year-old American woman had part of her thumb bitten off while feeding bamboo to a panda bear in China.....The moral of the story: Don't feed the bear that bites you.

Speaking of China, China's Xiamen University is requiring business and law students to take golf lessons to prepare for the business world.....China is one of the few places in the world where you not only can play with Pings, you can have drinks with them afterward.

More bad news for Spanish King Juan Carlos. First it was alleged that the Spanish King shot a fat, drunk domesticated bear while hunting in Russia.....Now it turns out that it wasn't a fat drunk bear at all. Actually, it was Boris Yeltsin.

More than 400 hippos have been killed by poachers in the past two weeks alone in Africa's oldest national park.....In a related story, Rosie O'Donnell has cancled her 2007 "Rosie & Friends Gay Safari."

Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton who recently clebrated their 31st wedding anniversary.....A teary-eyed Bill said "I love her just as much today as the first day I cheated on her."

A 26-year-old man from Washington State has been accused of having sex with his family's pit bull terrier. The man's wife took photos of the act with her cell phone and called police.....Now I don't want to make moral judgements. But if you must have sex with a dog, you might want to stay away from the pit bull.

Convicted murderer Michael Dewayne Johnson killed himself by slitting his throat just 15 hours before he was to be put to death by lethal injection in Texas.....Prison officials aren't sure why Johnson killed himself, but said they have removed copies of "Suicide for Dummies" from the prison library.

The Ford Motor Co. has announced that, after 21 years, production of the Ford Taurus will be shut down.....To commemorate the event, flags at car rental agencies across the country are being lowered to half staff.

According to the Associated Press, L.A.'s palm trees are dying of old age and fungal disease and are being replaced by oaks and other trees.....That doesn't seem right. What says "L.A." more than palm trees? O.K., O.K., besides breast impants.

A grade school south of Boston has banned the game of "tag" saying kids could get hurt and sue.....What are our schools coming to? Apparently you can still have sex with your teacher. You just can't shout "You're it!" afterward.

The journal Science reports that the Hawaiian Islands will sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 80 million years.....So if you're thinking about moving to Hawaii, you might want to instead of buy.

A leopard is loose in the British Embassy in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abada..... A British spokesman says they have been unable to locate or trap the leopard because, well, apparently they can change their spots.

And finally, and not a moment too soon.....

A Bulgarian woman who killed her son but was released from prison because she has terminal cancer went home and killed her husband.....Let that be a lesson to all you youngsters out there. If at first you don't succeed....


Goodngiht everybody. Gino@wlup.com