Once again, the U.S. Army’s training and recruitment tool/video game America’s Army is making headlines. Last year I wrote about how they came under fire for providing potential recruits with “a sanitized view of violence“, and subsequently…released a set of action figures. You’ll note at the bottom of that post that I blithely joked “Maybe they can arrange Army play dates for 6 year olds; never can start too young.”
Turns out the Army was way ahead of me. They’ve recently announced a partnership with Project Lead The Way, a NPO that “educational program that helps give middle and high school …read more

Remember the original Ghost Recon from 2001? Well some folks are looking at it in a whole new light following the increasingly volatile political situation in Georgia. Why? You might not recall, it being seven years ago and all (oh god, really?), that the plot went a little something like this:
“The year is 2008, and the world teeters on the brink of war. Radical ultranationalists have seized power in Moscow – their goal, the reestablishment of the old Soviet empire. Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan – one by one the nearby independent republics slip back into the Russian orbit. Russian tanks …read more

There’s throwing a temper tantrum when you don’t get what you want, and then there’s pulling a knife on your teacher at school and demanding money to fulfill your wants and needs. That’s exactly what a 13-year old boy in Framingham, Mass. did when his mother refused to buy him a Grand Theft Auto video game.
The Associated Press reports the incident as follows:

“…the male student stayed behind after the other students had left the classroom, pulled the 11-inch knife and asked for $20. After she refused, he lowered his demand to $1.

The teacher took the knife from the student.”

Odd thing …read more