Yeah, sure.

tejas tbsamsel@infi.net
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:38:42 -0500


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Baker" <rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:46 PM
Subject: Yeah, sure.


> So this 15 year old kid crashes his plane into the side of a bank.
> 
> Why?
> 
> A note in his pocket said it was because he took Osama bin Laden's 
> appeal seriously.
> 
> But you would have to be crazy to take Osama seriously, and the kid was 
> upper middle class
> (private school, taking flight lessons), so a meaningless crime of 
> juvenile passion doesn't make
> any sense.
> 
> But maybe he was taking a drug approved by the US govt. FDA that 
> commonly makes kids
> commit suicide!!! Of course its still on the market, but its exactly the 
> explanation America needs
> to feel good. Yeah, thats it -- that drug must be the cause when we've 
> eliminated all the other
> possibilities.
> 
> Now that the world makes logical sense again, our lives can move along 
> secure in the knowledge
> that things that don't make sense in stageset America can be explained 
> if you look hard
> enough for explanations.
> 
>  -- Roger
> 
>                            ************************************
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17024-2002Jan8.html
> 
> Tampa Crash Pilot Had Acne Drug Prescription
> Medicine's Link to Suicide Is Being Probed

Alright! Zit medication turns you into a terrorist. 

Or does it?

Ted Samsel

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