Beacuse Candy Only Works on Little Kids...
Hmmm (H/T to Michael Moore )... In the battle to win the hearts and minds of potential teenage recruits, the Missouri National Guard has hit upon a winning formula: video games and pizza. Once a month gamers, pizza lovers and those simply interested in joining the Guard are invited to play Xbox 360 games National Guard-style at several Guard outposts in Jefferson County. It's not your typical video game experience: Gamers fire away on massive big screen televisions while perched on the back of a camouflaged Humvee."We've been doing it for three or four months and we've had a good turnout," Tim Davidson, Guard spokesman, said. "It's a good way for kids to hang out with each other and stay out of trouble." Of course, if the conflict in Iraq was just and not a quest for oil and political gamesmanship , I'd imagine more people would be signing up without having the "Hansel and Gretel" treatment. Then again, if the conflict was just we...