A new book entitled Betraying our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, by federal contract investigator, Dina Rasor, claims that the privatization of the U.S. Armed Forces has made it so difficult some soldiers have been forced to make do with a single rationed bottle of water per day in 120 degree heat.

Read the startling article here.

George David, CEO of United Technologies, "Obviously, military was a big bang for us in the post-September 11 period."

CEO Gerald Potthoff of Engineered Support Systems, "Obviously, we got a pop during the Iraq and Afghani thing,"

Throughout his career, the recently much maligned Sigmund Freud was interested in jokes and slips of the tongue in relation to unconscious desires. In Jokes And Their Relationship to the Unconscious, he theorized that jokes and slips allowed the ego a momentary guilt-free narcissistic escape from the demanding strictures of the conscience (super-ego), a kind of blissful and pleasurable recess from the mean teacher we don't leave home without. Such time away from self-discipline and punishment gives us strength to carry on with day-to-day business. But what if the joke or slip is not funny?