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Today's choice is a bit meta: It comes from Slate's coverage of coverage feature, Today's Papers. In a wrap-up of "the fallout—literal and figurative—from the nuclear test North Korea claims to have conducted late Sunday night," Slate actually runs the following:

On the bright side for the South Koreans, the Security Council approved their countryman Ban Ki-moon as the U.N.'s new secretary-general yesterday, just in time to deal with the North's big Ki-boom.

Well, at least it wasn't something about how the Korean peninsula is "going to the dogs."

The Day After [Slate]

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