The U.S. Military is working with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school and university kids; their race, age, email address, grade point average, turn-ons and turn-offs to, you know, get to know them better.
"Johnny, are you sure you don't want to join the marines? I mean, it's not like a guy like you, who flunked woodshop three times in a row and who has hotdude_styxfan94 for an email address, has a lot of options in life."
Privacy advocates are pissed because apparently the government can't do this legally, but the private firm can. Seriously, does anybody know what the government is allowed to do and not allowed to do to private citizens anymore? Is it like second base is okay, but third base is out of the question? Do I have to put out for the FBI if they bring dinner to my house?
My favorite line:
"Some information on high school students already is given to military recruiters in a separate program under provisions of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act."
Which, of course, gives a whole new meaning to "no child left behind".
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