When I saw CBS promoting a 60 Minutes interview with a Pentagon official who called something a ‘”gamechanger,” I went to the CBS website to see what was up. Minding the brand, dontcha know.

Turns out the Pentagon offical is Sue Payton, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, and the gamechanger she’s talking about is a ray gun, a weapon the military calls the Active Denial System (ADS). I have read enough comic books and seen enough Star Trek to know that any kind of ray gun (or phaser) is automatically a gamechanger. No questions asked. When a ray gun shows up in the scene, something is going to change soon. So I agree 100% with Sue Payton. (more…)