It's a triple play this week on Xbox Live Arcade, the addictive gameplay of Peggle, the strategic defense of Crystal Defenders, and new downloadable content for Twisted Pixel's The Maw. Peggle is the tremendously addictive ball-bouncing game for the PC, ported to Xbox Live Arcade with 55 levels, 75 ...

Part 2 of the story about SSG Kinney is here over at Soldiers Angels Germany.  J-Bad DUSTOFF     "There's many medics and they all do their jobs well. Then there's those who want to be flight medics - who want to practice medicine in an aircraft, and then practice medicine in an ...

SOME NEWS:* Turns out the CIA destroyed more incriminating tapes than originally reported. * "Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance."* Moving the FISA court. * Should we pay kids rewards for good grades? (Courtesy my dad.)* Supreme...

A number of same-sex spouses and widows who were legally married in Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that a 1996 federal law discriminates against married same-sex couples by limiting certain protections and benefits that are normally provided to married...

This is an interesting article and illustrative of what I think is a very different atmosphere in the US today....

The Rocky Mountain News has folded up shop.  After 150 years, no more newspaper in Denver, CO. (read article here).  This is newsworthy because of the size of Denver, but the trend has been obvious.  The newspaper's owner (Scripps) closed the Albuquerque Tribune and Cincinnati Post last year.  A...

This is written by one of our MIL Plaintiffs: There is a huge difference between the military enlisted oath and the officer oath of office. The wordings of the current oath of enlistment and oath for commissioned officers are as follows: Enlisted Oath “I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) ...

UPDATED UPDATED: THIS IS BREAKING: The Pentagon is expected to allow some media coverage of returning war dead with approval from their families, the Associated Press reported Thursday. AS SOON AS WE CAN GET DETAILS, WE WILL DO SO. HELL HATH FROZE OVER, AND THE INMATES NOW RUN THE ASYLUM. The update...

It appears that the D.C. police are finally going to arrest somebody in the 2001 murder of Congressional aide Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C. No, it's not the Great White Defendant, former Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA), who was having an affair with her. Rep. Condit captivated the atten...

So, M. and I have caught up on the first two episodes of Dollhouse. Discussion below. Will contain info from both, so don't read unless you've caught up or you don't care. They definitely have an interesting premise. My hangup is, the Dollhouse group seems really, really evil. Seriously, the last tw...