Brain Wars

With the news that the suspect in the Afghanistan massacre, on his fourth combat tour, had a traumatic brain injury in Iraq, Democracy Now looks at the appallingly inadequate care for brain-injured soldiers with an Iraq veteran and the author of a ProPublica series on the issue. The war's chaos, and an attack at Leon Panetta's arrival in Afghanistan, suggests the war may be over and lost, but only the soldiers know it.

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Shooting To Kill, But Not Really, Though Sort Of

Pennsylvania park ranger Randy Gregg has designed a replica hunting rifle that's a digital camera, complete with crosshairs in scope, wherein you pull the trigger and take a picture. Called either KillShot or Harmless Hunter, he says it's a great way to teach hunting safety and "ethical shot placement," not to mention offer that singularly blood-tingling blast of adrenaline from shooting something, just what our culture needs more of.

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