Sunday Link Blast

• US Recruitment scandals redux -
  Lying about benefits, recruiting Nazis and the mentally ill, threatening to shoot potential recruits for backing out and now raping them in the recruitment office. Money quote: One in 200 frontline recruiters has been investigated for sexual misconduct. If they're this desperate for recruits that this is the kind of stuff they'll tolerate in a 'closer', can a draft be far away?
  
  
• Today's best US editorial cartoons -
  Bush and the GOP get a hard time.
  
  
• Macho country star shoots caged tame bear to prove his manhood -
  He kicks ass for the Lord.
  
  
• Rent-a-coup -
  "I'm bored, wanna overthrow an African nation for fun and profit?"
  
  
• Who killed New Orleans? -
  Pretty much who you think did it. Check this out too.
  
  
• The 155th victim -
  Lebanon War II and it's aftermath in Israeli politics.