Stonehenge Used as Cemetery From the Beginning

New research shows that Stonehenge was used for more than 500 years as a cemetery. The burials were initially uncovered in a pit around the edge and in the nearby ditch surrounding the monument.

This makes me most sad. When will we realize we can’t ask people to commit and live among atrocities and then expect them to be shiny happy people?

An Army official said Thursday that 115 troops committed suicide in 2007, a nearly 13 percent increase over the previous year’s 102. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because a full report on the deaths wasn’t being released until later Thursday.

Because McCain hates lobbyists so much…he employs a ton of them. There were a couple last week who either quit the campaign or were let go. Here’s the latest:

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show.

Today, the Phoenix landed on Mars – the first “rocket and legs” landing done by NASA in 32 years. You can follow the mission’s progress on the NASA site.