There has been a lot of talk lately about North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong Il. I know that he hates freedom and everything (just like Hurrican Katrina and those birds with the bird flu), but I also think that Kim Jong (or, as I like to call him, Il to the K Jongy) has some redeeming qualities.

Number one, of course, is the hair. Not many heads of state have the nerve to do much more than your classic right-side part, comb forward, or comb backwards. And, then there's the classic cut-it-so-short-I-will-neither-need-to-comb-forward-backward-or-sideways. But such traditional hair styles won't work for Il to the K Jongy. He is doing for international politics what Madonna did for pop music: offering an atypical hair style coupled with a bizarre and twisted epistemology, which translates into world domination within his own bubble. (Just cause you own a cape don't mean you can fly--Just cause you run North Korea don't mean you run the world...or do you?)

Number two redeeming quality (and perhaps most important): Il to the K Jongy keeps the United States from winning the award for "Most Delusional Head of State." Now, a lot of people may criticize me for placing G.Dub ahead of Castro, or even Hugo Chavez (on a side note, I recently told a guy I was moving to Vienna and he was really concerned because Vienna's president recently accused our president of being the devil). And these guys probably hold their own level of delusion, but at the end of the day, Castro is president of CUBA! And, he knows that. He's not fooling anyone. Meanwhile, G.Dub is doing everything possible to make us long for the rights and benefits of citizenship in that island nation to our south. The United States is right to be concerned about N. Korea's nuclear situation, but it is a little over the line to call for K Jongy's removal. Without him, The U.S. gets the award.

Well, there's two good reasons why Il to the K Jongy isn't so bad. Maybe you can name a few more.