Thursday, February 03, 2005

ENEMA MINE
Investigators say a Texas woman caused her husband's death by giving him a sherry enema, leading to alcohol poisoning. The enema caused his blood alcohol level to soar to 0.47 percent — almost six times the legal intoxication limit, a toxicology report showed.
(HOUSTON CHRONICLE, unearthed by Bill Messick)
BASKETBRAWL
Alabama police say more arrests will be made following a savage brawl that erupted at a girls' basketball game.
(IVILLAGE)

Sunday, January 30, 2005

DR. ECSTASY: HE COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
"in 1976, Shulgin fished an obscure chemical called MDMA out of the depths of the chemical literature and introduced it to the wider world, where it came to be known as Ecstasy."
(NYT)