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From a recent scientific paper noting that not everyone regards Beano, a food additive that inhibits gas, favorably: For some people, “the production of high volumes of resonant, pungent intestinal gas is a source of personal pride and fulfillment.”
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Defense lawyer Paul Fernandez, explaining in a Paterson, New Jersey, court in March why his client, a 14-year-old boy, might have sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl: They were “two kids who had nothing better to do. They don’t have cable TV–what do you do?”
In September, after USAir had suffered two fatal crashes in two months (bringing their total to five in five years), Steven Fink, a Los Angeles public relations specialist, told the Wall Street Journal: “To the casual observer there seems to be a disturbing pattern.”
In February federal prison inmate Rodney Curtis Hamrick, 29, was charged with threatening President Clinton’s life. Hamrick was convicted in the mid-1980s for writing bad checks and was given a modest sentence. Since then he’s had about 50 years added for threatening President Reagan, the judge who sentenced him, and his prosecutors, and for building five small firebombs while in prison and mailing two of them to the prosecutors.
