When Navy ships return home, tradition holds that one lucky raffle winner is selected to be the first to kiss a loved one upon disembarking. But when the USS Oak Hill came home to Virginia Beach today, there was one teeny (history-making) change.

British military officials accidentally allowed the release of secret naval information in a screwup described as “potentially catastrophic” by a Conservative Member of Parliament. The release happened when Ministry of Defense documents were released with sensitive information redacted–but in such a way that blacked-out portions were restored by simply copying and pasting the document into [...]

CNN’s Kathleen Parker, co-host of Parker Spitzer, weighed in on the unfolding controversy over a series of “raunchy” shipboard videos shown to the crew of the Navy aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise. The videos, produced by then-executive officer and now Navy Capt. Owen Honors, have been described as sexist and homophobic, leading the Navy to begin an investigation of the captain, who may not deploy with his ship when it sails to the Arabian Sea later this month.

Capt. Owen Honors, the commander of the aircraft carrier Enterprise discovered to have produced and acted in weird homophobic videos for the ship’s “movie night” has been temporarily relieved of his duties as captain, effective immediately. He will not be traveling with the ship to Afghanistan.

Okay, we get that some left-leaning members of the MSM are (rightfully!) pissed at Eric Massa for using the Democratic Party’s shortcomings as a sort of scape-goat for his own alleged sexual misconduct, but MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell took it over the line tonight on Countdown when he set out to use the stories some of Massa’s former Navy-mates to find out if those tickle-fights and “Massa Massages” were pro-the-course on the high seas.