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I received a text from Jeremy this evening, which read, "North Korea just successfully tested a nuclear bomb. The game just changed."

Indeed it did. Just hours ago, the world learned that North Korea, an Axis of Evil delegate, performed its first nuclear weapons test equivalent to 550 tons of TNT. The U.S. dropped the equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT on Hiroshima, for context. According to the AP, the communist country hailed the event as a "great step forward" for its people.

"We expect the U.N. Security Council to take immediate actions to respond to this unprovoked act," said White House spokesman Tony Snow. "The United States is closely monitoring the situation and reaffirms its commitment to protect and defend our allies in the region." (Read: We're backing up Japan and South Korea.)

Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, calls the test "unpardonable," and South Korean presidential spokesman Yoon Tae-young said, "Our government will sternly react under the principle that it cannot tolerate the North's possession of nuclear weapons."

South and North Korea, which fought the 1950-53 Korean War, are divided by the world's most heavily armed border. Gramps even took a turn at border patrol, I believe. North Korea pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 2003 after U.S. officials accused it of a secret nuclear program, according to the AP. North Korea has since dismissed U.N. sanctions requesting disarmament. North Korea is the eighth country in the world confirmed to have atomic weapons, joining the ranks of the United States, Russia, France, China, Britain, India, and Pakistan. Yikes.

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What congressmen should not do six weeks before elections: get caught having online sex with minors.

ABC News revealed last week that ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., sent lewd e-mails to underage male congressional assistants. Since the story broke, Foley quit his office the House, entered a rehab program, admitted he is gay and claims he was sexually abused by a clergyman as a teenager. That's a hell of a week.

Yesterday, The Washington Post obtained dozens of America Online instant messages from December 2002 to October 2003. Many included sexual references, like this one:

Foley to Page: "I wish i would have jumped you after dinner in san diego, but I was good."

According to the Washington Post article, in one particular instance, "Foley and the teenager engaged in graphic Internet sex, with the boy apparently masturbating as time was running out on a vote the lawmaker had to cast on the House floor."

Today, ABC News revealed that three more pages, classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002, now accuse Foley of online sexual approaches -- creating a greater timeline of pedophiliac behavior by the disgraced congressman.

What has ended Foley's political career (at the very least) should ignite the Democrat's mission to win some House seats and exploit corruption in the GOP. Certainly, the source of the ABC story timed exposing Foley to maximize political impact.

Foley's name remains on the ballot in Florida's 16th Congressional District, which means Democrats now only need 13 seats to capture the House. As George Will, says in his editorial, "If, after the Foley episode -- a maraschino cherry atop the Democrats' delectable sundae of Republican miseries -- the Democrats cannot gain 13 seats, they should go into another line of work."

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The recent changes at Facebook, an online (formerly) student social network, are, in a word, disturbing.

According to Reuters, Facebook, the No. 2 U.S. social network (right behind MySpace), received an online petition from 500,000 members of its 9.5 million membership last month asking that the recently introduced "News Feed" feature be removed. The "News Feed" basically lets users know what other users in their network are doing on their Facebook accounts, in real time.

The petition states, "News Feed is just too creepy, too stalker-esque, and a feature that has to go."

Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerburg, who created Facebook in 2004 while attending Harvard, responded, "We agree, stalking isn't cool; but being able to know what's going on in your friends' lives is." Great. Now stalkers can call their victims "friends."

Let's try an example. Just by looking at Kenna's page (above), I not only learn that Kenna added photos to her account, but I know how many she posted and the day and time she posted them. I know when she's communicated to her other friends. I also learn that Kenna is dating someone new and, by looking at the photo, see that the guy looks strangely like -- me. (It's NOT me, for the record.)

I hardly use Facebook at all anymore because I'm so turned off by these creepy features. I did join a new group though. It's called "Facebook... aka STALKERbook." The description of this group reads, "If this new 'news feed' has you feeling like every friend (or lack there of) can watch your Facebook-moves, and it fucking creeps you out, then we all have something in common." Count me in.

Facebook originally had some feeling of privacy, primarily because only people with college email addresses could register for accounts or access member pages. Some months ago, Facebook began allowing high schoolers, non-profits and military organizations to register for accounts. Now, anyone can ask to be "one of your friends" as Facebook has opened itself up to the general public -- making the "News Feed" feature that much more concerning, and giving reason to drop the "STALKERbook" membership.

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Last night, in between watching reality TV shows, I edited one of Scott's MBA papers. I didn't edit his last paper. As a result, here's the feedback he received from his professor:

So, this time, Scott decided it was a good idea to let me look over his paper.