Conscripts booted out of army for 'internet addiction'

Finland requires their young men to complete a massive six month military commitment. Some of them can't make it that long without their most prized activity. Sex? Drugs? Nope, the intarweb and Everquest. What's astounding isn't that people would try anything to get out of being a draftee, it's that the military is going along with it!

bq. Finland's military conscription unit revealed that some of the young men drafted can't cope with being apart from their beloved PCs and have been booted off their full term of military service.

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Ron Reagan's Case Against George W. Bush

Esquire has an article by the ever-eloquent Ron Reagan discussing his perceived failings in the Bush administration. The "lying for lying's sake" argument is a good one. What was gained by pretending that Gore spent more in 2000 than Bush, when anyone with a bit of research can find out the opposite was true? There are other examples.

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