After a small showing of support for the previous contest, I have decided to create another one, hopefully in a topic most of our readers will have plenty of interest (and fun) participating in.  The winners will receive the same prizes as the previous contest, as we only had one winner last time.

If you've been on this site in the past, you may have noticed that we haven't had stories about North Korea.  The reason is simple: North Korea does something to top itself each day it has a story about it.  Looking for proof?  Look no further than the stories from the past month, where that renegade nation has launched several tests of their nuclear program despite international pressure to cease.  Then, to top that, officials "captured" two American journalists and sentenced them to several years of hard labor on imagined charges of espionage. 

So, if anyone were to write news about the North Korean government, the writer would think "how am I going to top this?"

That's where this contest comes in handy.  Since the point of this website involves pointed and snarky comments about the world, the opportunity to criticize stupid decisions from leaders around the world is a welcome way to blow off some steam.  It is time for YOU to come up with your very own headline about North Korea and what they're up to. 

All readers are permitted 5 headline submissions, and the headline can include a banner headline and a subheading (or two sentences, maximum per entry).

The contest will end at 9 p.m. Pacific Time next Friday, June 19.

First Prize will consist of either $10 or $20 Starbucks Gift Card, as selected by the winner.
Second Prize will be the prize not selected by the first place winner.
Third Prize will be the cash value of my can-and-bottle returns up to that time (currently at $2).

I hope the North Koreans don't view this contest as an act of war.  Wait, doesn't the North Korean government view everything as an act of war?

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In a related bit of news, the awful genre-hopping band O.A.R has taken their white reggae-ska-easy listening-contemporary alternative-teeny-bopper music to same type of contest we are promoting here.  Only they have decided to use Twitter as their main entry format.  If you submit a Twitter to O.A.R. (which stands for Of A Revolution), you could be selected to win the opportunity to write a song with the group. 

I should mention that this band is terrible and is feverishly followed by fratboys who think that any band with a jam lasting more than three minutes qualifies them as this generation's Grateful Dead or Phish stand-in.  I went to a concert many years ago to see two opening acts followed by this group , who headlined the tour, and my girlfriend and I left the seats when the first song played, and left the parking lot of the venue before it finished.  Why did we leave?  Because the fans in attendance were waving their arms back and forth in unison about a song about freedom.  Sung by preppy white dudes.  I thought a PGA Tour event was happening based on the make and models or the cars in the parking lot.  Freedom?  Freedom for what?  To choose the features on your yacht?  Trash.  They even played a year-end festival at my Graduate School two years ago.  As soon as I saw the banner, I wanted to turn the car around and head home.

So guess what their new smash hit was?  "Turn the Car Around."  Apparently they can read minds.  So I have decided to have Matt enter this (since he can Twitter) and I have a few suggestions for the winning entry:   1) Writing a song about how I got to write a song with O.A.R. by Twittering the idea to O.A.R. on Twitter regarding a contest
Or:  2)  High School
Or: 3) Nonsense faux-trippy music about drinking and poker-playing clowns with non sequiter references to revolution
Or: 4) How being in love is great (possibly make a high school reference in here)
Or: 5) Question the validity and impact that current political, social, and religious decisions have on future generations according to socially-accepted views of previous generations' opinions of the same issues (possibly have that poker-playing clown inserted here).

There.  Those are my five submissions.  But I would rather have Billy Joel write a song that picks up where "We Didn't Start the Fire" left off. 

But first, let's share your North Korea Headlines.