From CNN.Com:


As of August, 62 Army soldiers have committed suicide, and 31 cases of possible suicide remain under investigation, according to Army statistics. Last year, the Army recorded 115 suicides among its ranks, which was also higher than the previous year.

Army officials said that if the trend continues this year, it will pass the nation's suicide rate of 19.5 people per 100,000, a 2005 figure considered the most recent by the government

This alone should tell you that the situation is NOT improving over there.

From MSN.com:

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - A 54-year-old man says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years.

He's been eating a Big Mac a day for every year that I've been alive, minus one day:

The only day he skipped a Big Mac was the day his mother died, to respect her request.

I think instead of Big Macs, I'm going to try to have OCD sex once a day for the next 36 years. I don't think I can make it, but it'll sure be fun to try...

From the NY Times:


The first national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, federal health officials reported Tuesday.



YIKES! Make sure to wrap your "buddy" up to keep him safe folks. As someone close to me says: "No GynaHerpaSyphilAids fr me!"