HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.psychology,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: Partial Legalization
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:08:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvaac.1992Jul29.160814.8489
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger) writes:
: 
: I wrote:
: > There is a class of substances whose mere exposure leads to addiction.
: 
: David Vessell inquires:
: > so WHAT IS IT
: 
: Pretty much what you'd guess.  For example, cocaine.  Surprise.

Well, you are wrong. By the governments own figures - about 30% of regular
users of cocaine become addicted. I think you are drastically overstating
your position. 

: There's also an interesting subclass: substances that the organism
: self administers.  This subclass is also pretty much what you'd guess,
: e.g. cocaine also makes this list.  Anyone surprised?

So, people self administer coffe and chocolate. What does this have to do
with addiction? Sounds more like they enjoy the effect.

No, I am not surprised - it is one of the drugs I would expect you to
mention.

: The complement to this subclass is also interesting: substances whose
: exposure leads to addiction but the organism doesn't self administer.

Please give some examples - please use drugs that affect people this way,
rather than affecting rats.

: All relevant to evaluating potential for abuse.

I would say that the pleasure derived from the drug is more likely to lead
to abuse than any addictive potential. I could be wrong - I expect Lamont
or Steve will have something to say on the matter if I am.

Bill
From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: lsd baseball rumor
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:10:27 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Jul27.223145.29992@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:
> I'm writing another paper for my psychology class on LSD, and was wondering
> if anyone has a reference to that claim that some baseball dude pitched
> a no-hitter on acid, or whatever.  (If no reference, at least a name to the
> baseball dude what be appreciated.)

You're probably thinking of Dock Ellis (Pirates 68-75, Yankees 76,
traveled extensively 77-79), although my memory is a littly hazy
on the circumstances.  Bill Lee (Boston 69-78, Montreal 79-82)
had some involvements with altered states, of course.
Dates from the MacMillan _Baseball Encyclopedia_, which sadly
doesn't have a "Stoned Register."

Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
913-864-4428 or -4495	University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS  66045
From: u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Natural vs syntesized.
Date: 23 Jul 92 05:15:07 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <BrstoJ.5xs@acsu.buffalo.edu>, pck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Philip C. Kilinskas) writes:
> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
> 
>>I guess mescaline has some of that potential too.  Others anyone?
> 
> I had always heard that the effects of mesc were virtually identical
> to LSD, the only thing different was the dosage.  Anyone who can
> comment?

What I have read suggests this. What I have experienced suggests this.
I doubt anyone could tell the difference if administered appropriate
dosages.
If there is any difference, perhaps it is in the physical aspect.
Mescaline is maybe prone to more side effects (e.g. nausea, stimulation)
than LSD. This would be compounded by using natural mescaline.
One report I read suggested that mescaline was less likely to cause
quite as profound an effect as high doses of LSD, and that this may
be because the toxic dose:effective dose ratio of mescaline is much
lower. 
If you would like a totally subjective and useless, context dependent
psychological distinction, I would say that mescaline is more oriented
towards orthogonal geometry, whereas LSD is more tuned to roundness
and undulations.
Yes, they are virtually identical in effect and duration.

Jeremy
jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.sex,alt.privacy,alt.society.revolution,soc.culture.usa,alt.culture.usenet,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty
From: scottj@gumedlib.georgetown.edu (John L. Scott)
Subject: Re: Please Feed the Spooks
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Followup-To: alt.drugs,alt.sex,alt.privacy,alt.society.revolution,soc.culture.usa,alt.culture.usenet,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:04:19 GMT
X-Posted-From: iamac-1.georgetown.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul30.164930.17055@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, thorn@cc.mcgill.ca
(Ron HALL) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Jul16.151108.10753@news.iastate.edu> paisley@iastate.edu (Dr. Martin Paisley) writes:
> > In article <1992Jul16.121649.4401@wyvern.twuug.com> tmanos@wyvern.twuug.com (Tom Manos) writes:
> > >Stuart Finkelstein <sf20+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> > >
> > >>>>>>>> Er, please excuse my ignorance, but what are "cascades"?
> > >>>>>>> hmmm...I too am lost, has anyone seen my shades ?
> > >>>>>> uh, this is weird, do you think it will fade?
> > >>>>> Has anybody here seen my old friend Darth Vader?
> > >>>> AARRGGH  I've cascaded and I can't get up!
> > >>>FLARGH I've abraded and I can't get op!
> WHAM BAM! I've just done the horizontal BOP!
AH HELL!  This thing just won't STOP!
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.psychology,talk.politics.drugs
From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Subject: Re: Partial Legalization
Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Organization: Ingres Division, ASK Computer Systems.
Distribution: usa
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:32:19 GMT

Pete Hartman writes:
> since most arguments that drugs should be
> illegal hinge on the point of addiction potential, I'd say that your
> claim that cocaine (in particular) is addictive is relevant.

Read what I wrote.  I made no argument that any substance should
be illegal.  Once again you're differing with something I never said.

-- Jon

Jon Krueger  jpk@ingres.com  
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Subject: Re: What Do YOU Think.
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 21:02:48 GMT

In <36104@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Trevor Cederquist) writes:
>	A simple question....

A simple anser....

>	I was wondering for what reasons do people take drugs?
>	There are Seigel's and Weil's ideas that drug-taking
>	is just another behavior that alters consciousness,
>	which is an innate desire.
>	Some believe people take drugs to self-medicate for 
>	depression, anxiety, or pain.
>	I've also heard that drug-taking is just another risk-
>	taking behavior which is an indicator of some underlying
>	psychological problem.
>	I'm sure there are others...  What do YOU think?

All of the above and more.  An individual's reasons for taking a given
drug are as unique as s/he is.  The above are broad categories that
I would say fit in one way or another (or even jointly) most cases.
-- 
Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
                                Ma gavte la nata
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pjm@isis.cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: Every little bit helps
Originator: pjm@lilith
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 19:17:48 GMT

a comedian on HBO last night (don't know his name, sorry)
asked the audience "How many of you think marijuana is more halmful
than bacon?" (part of his "bacon" schtick).  no one said yes.
Progress!

-- 
-- Pat Monardo		What is the cause, what the reason
-- pjm@cshl.org		for the manifestation of a smile?
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: rowell@socrates.umd.edu (William Rowell)
Subject: Please buy my MR2! People think I'm dealing drugs!
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:53:46 GMT

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I owe $15,622 on this car and it is placing too much of a financial burden
 on me. Please make me an offer or take over payments of $391/month.

Figures:
	2.0-liter 4-cyl. turbocharged, intercooled engine makes 200HP.
	40K pleasureable miles. 22-30 MPG. 0-60 MPH in 6.0 sec. Top speed 145.
	Tires-195/60R14 85V front; 205/60R14 88V rear. 
Features:
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	Driver's side Airbag, Power locks/windows/antenna/mirrors, Fog Lights,
	7-speaker stereo with CD player, T-Tops, 7-way bucket driver's seat w/
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Care:
	Oil changed ever 3K miles. Slick50 added at 1,000 miles. Original
	tires on front. Rear tires have 28K miles. Washed and waxed often. 
	Never redlined, crashed, raced or otherwise tortured.

-- 
*---Phones----*------------Addresses*-------------------*------Humor--------*
(301)890-4841 * 5600 Fishers LN 4-08* 13707 Colgate Way * "Dis, I claim."
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From: ppennane@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Petrus Pennanen)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Shrooms in tea (?)
Date: 19 Jul 92 11:20:11 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <1992Jul18.220252.4295@cs.tulane.edu> derunix@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (james wright) writes:
>   Recently I've tried brewing tea with shrooms in it.  They were old, dry
>ones, and we didn't have too many to use, but we still got a pretty good,
>light trip.  Does anyone have anything more solid than a one time experiment?
>Does anyone know the soluability of phylisybin(sp?) (is it polar, non-polar?) 
>or any other reason why brewing it in tea (herbal tea, btw) would reduce it's
>potency?

According to C.B.Gold's The Mushroom Entheogen, part III (Psychedelic
Monographs and Essays vol IV ed. Thomas Lyttle), psilocin is not very 
soluble in water, and it's unstable in solution (especially alkaline 
solutions). You should add the mushrooms to the liquid and drink
immediately (swallowing the mushroom powder) if you don't want to waste 
any of the psiloc(yb)in. Also, some people report headaches and other 
physical side effects if the mushroom powder sits in the water for more 
than a few minutes.
--
Petrus.Pennanen@helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Subject: Re: RFD: Recipe FAQ
Keywords: d{
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:13:06 GMT

feinstei@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>I was wondering if there is any interest in a FAQ containing recipes 
>appropriate for this group... Any comments?

Whaddaya mean by recipies and have you check out the files I've got
to see if stuff there is what you're looking for?

-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu  (anon: ap.2187@cupid.sai.com)
University of Washington, Seattle.    Disc: if UW ever finds out what I post... 
alt.drugs FTP site: ftp.u.washington.edu[128.95.136.1] dir:/public/alt.drugs
               For quotes and other useless info see my .plan
From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: One pill makes you. . .
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:13:11 GMT
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland

In article <xclmt=+.rcain@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
>Dali is truly a man with the ability to whip his neurotranmitters into
>about any old mix he wants.  Totally insane yet not.  Read his auto-
>biographical "Diary of a Genius."  He's not modest, but yes maybe genius.

Some people just loose something when they grow up - Dali didn't, and
got even better.

The Good News: it's never too late to start imagining things again.

The Other News: acid is much easier.

But who'd prefer a plastic doll to a live girl.

-- 
jjj@mits.mdata.fi             Kirjoitatko sin{ n{it{ ihan selvin p{in?
jjj@niksula.hut.fi                          -Petteri J{rvinen
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: mike@optimla.aimla.com (Mike Diehr)
Subject: LA Times : "Long LSD Prison Terms--It's all in the packaging"
Organization: Philips Interactive Media
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 00:14:31 GMT


Excerpts from the LA Times Front page article, 7/27/92:

"Long LSD Prison Terms--It's All in the Packaging"
o  Drugs: Law can mean decades in prison for minuscule amounts.  DEA official says
no change needed.

  Levon Dunmont, a free spirited Santa Cruz teenager whose principal passion was
the Grateful Dead, was on his way to a concert on Sept. 14, 1989, when he was
stopped by an undercover agent at the Milwaukee airport.
  Dunmont's bag was searched, and agents found about three grams of LSD, an illegal
hallucinogen.  Today, Dunmont is serving a 15 year, 8 month sentence at the Federal
Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Ore.
  Five years are for the three grams of LSD; the rest, more than a decade, is for
the 440 grams of paper on which the drug was carried.
  "I could have understood five years," said Connie Dumont, Levon's mother, a 
Santa Cruz real estate agent.  "But 15 years?  They took the best part of his life
away because of this absurd decision to weigh the paper."
  Levon Dumont could not agree more.  "It has a daily, gut-wrenching effect," he
said of the decision.  "The time is unfathomable."
  Cases like Dumont's are cropping up regularly in federal courts across the 
United States.  And as LSD arrests soar, hundreds of offenders are forfeiting 
decades of their lives to a vaguely worded sentencing law that determines how the 
drug is weighed and how long dealers serve in prison.
  Despite withering criticism of that law--the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986--and deep
uncertainty about what Congress intended when it approved it, the U.S. Supreme Court
voted last year to let it stand, a decision that allowed the government to include
the weight of paper or other so-called LSD "carriers" when determing prison sentences.
The consequences of that ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, "are
so bizarre that I cannot believe they were intended by Congress."
  Other critics also have assailed the law, but Congress, whose members are wary of
taking any action that could ease prison sentences for drug dealers, has done nothing.
Drug enforcement officers say no action is needed.
  "I'm just not troubled by this at all," said Robert C. Bonner, administrator of the
Drug Enforcement Administration.  "There are some pretty severe penalties for trafficking
in LSD, but I think that's right.  This is a very dangerous drug.  It once was referred
to as do-it-yourself brain surgery."
  The 1986 law at the center of this LSD debate was one of a slew of statutes enacted 
by Congress to set mandatory minimum prison sentences for crimes involving drugs.
There is no parole in federal prison, so criminals serve all but a fraction of their assigned
time.

Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med
From: ibarrett@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (I G Barrett)
Subject: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Summary: Is MJ Smoking Worse than Tobacco Smoking?
Keywords: Smoking, Tobacco, Marijuana, Health
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:24:07 GMT


Surely smoking marijuana is at least as potentially dangerous as smoking 
tobacco?  The file 'drug-statistics' at 'ftp.u.washington.edu' gives various 
figures for deaths due to tobacco, marijuana and various other drugs - the 
figure given for marijuana was zero.  Is this saying that the active principles
in marijuana caused no deaths (no overdoses etc.) or that consuming marijuana
did not contribute to any deaths?  Tobacco related deaths, as far as I know,
are just that, i.e. smoking tobacco contributes to what eventually kills you, 
but does not kill you directly, as in an overdose.  Is this not also the case 
with marijuana?  Is someone doing themselves a great deal more harm if they
mix tobacco with their marijuana, assuming that is the only time they actually
smoke tobacco?

I am not against the smoking of either marijuana or tobacco, but I would very
much like to clarify this issue a little.

Thanks
Swan
brrian04@uctvax.uct.ac.za 


Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.psychology
From: wayne@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Wayne Tvedt)
Subject: Re: Partial Legalization
Organization: 250 Million Pet Rocks
Distribution: world 
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:22:07 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger) writes:
>Pete Hartman writes:
>> most animals will not overdose unless their environment is negative.
 
>An interesting theory.  Where's your data?  How was environment varied?
> -- Jon

	Where's your data, teacher?  You first.  Show us lit majors what a
real scientific paper looks like.  Don't go so heavy on those greek
letters, though.

--
Wayne Tvedt                                     wayne@mathematik.uni-bremen.de
                                              ...fold globally, expand locally
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: bowman@reed.edu (Eric Bowman (bobo))
Subject: Re: amy's lsd tips, oops, i mean trips
Keywords: this ones from Mr. Hoffman himself.  
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:05:06 GMT

In article <Bs8uHx.438@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> alyoung@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (amy young) writes:
>2.  never try to get on the computer.... seriously.  you may not
>remember your apartment number, but can login like it's in your
>script, but that doesn't mean its right.  example right here.  

What!?!  If this rule were abided by, BSD 4.3 probably wouldn't exist.  Not
to mention Macintosh, NeXT, etc. etc.  Get with the program!

bobo
bowman@reed.edu

Xref: sparky alt.drugs:13624 sci.med:14638
From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med
Subject: Re: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:47:17 GMT
    <1992Jul28.013619.11668@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

In article <1992Jul28.013619.11668@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>"Marijuana has never caused a death" is a factoid that I hear quoted
>often.  And I'm not inclined to believe it.  Hasn't even _one_ stoned
>driver ever been involved in a fatal car accident?

Probably.  So what?  Hasn't _one_ peroxide blonde ever been involved...
Peroxide kills!

The truth is that the number of deaths due to marijauna use is not known.
I do not think the often-quoted stats include stupidities like DUI, though.

Marijuana smoke is roughly as carcinogenic as tobacco smoke, but it causes
fewer deaths because users smoke less marijuana (and there are fewer
marijuana users).

It has been suggested that marijauna use may actually increase life
expectancy by lowering blood pressure.  This may counteract any early cancer
deaths in an empirical study.

>Really, now...  Even _water_ has caused deaths.

So has lack thereof.

Keith Lewis             klewis@mitre.org          "Mr. Cheap"
I don't dance to music; music dances to me.  Email me for my corrected PGP key.
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
Subject: Re: lsd baseball rumor
Organization: Cadence Design Systems
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:06:01 GMT

In article <27JUL199221384695@elroy.uh.edu> st1g9@elroy.uh.edu (Lee Preimesberger) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.223145.29992@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes...
>#I'm writing another paper for my psychology class on LSD, and was wondering
>#if anyone has a reference to that claim that some baseball dude pitched
>#a no-hitter on acid, or whatever.  (If no reference, at least a name to the
>#baseball dude what be appreciated.)
>
>	According to _Flashbacks_, Tim Leary and co. played a mean softball
>game while high.  I don't think that he qualifies as a 'baseball dude' though.

No, not Timothy Leary, but Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while high on acid.

I saw him on some talk show (possibly David Letterman -- maybe Tonight with
Johnny Carson) and he was asked about (supposedly it is mentioned in his
autobiography).  He said he wasn't scheduled to pitch that day but got called
up when something happened to the scheduled pitcher.  He wasn't about to
say he couldn't pitch due to the LSD (probably had a hard time talking,
anyway) so he went out and pitched.  He said he pitched a LOT of balls, but
presumably enough strikes not to be pulled off the mound (I don't remember
the details of the game -- maybe someone with the book could look it up?).

He said it was a very weird experience.

-Pete Zakel
 (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)

Brain, v.: [as in "to brain"] To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to
dispel a source of error in an opponent.
From: ppennane@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Petrus Pennanen)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: LSD - After effects
Date: 25 Jul 92 06:45:32 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <BruKB8.F3r@world.std.com> dmh@world.std.com (David M Harmon) writes:
>4)  "Post hallucinogen sensory disorder" -- after tripping, you
>start to see things -- [quoting from the article]
>
>	"continuous visual disturbances of an abstract nature, such as 
>	flashes of light, auras, patterns of dots vibrating in the air, 
>	trailing, after-imagery.  These things can go on forever.  Post 
>	hallucinogen syndrome occupies a spectrum -- some people react 
>	occasionally, some every few seconds." 
>
[...]
>Moving sparks of light when staring at a blue sky.  I don't know what
>causes this, either.  The channelled spirit Hilarion claimed these are
>the inhabitants of the Kingdom of the Air.  

There is a simple device in the huge science museum in Paris which lets
you see these sparks of light very clearly. According to the description
a certain wavelenght of blue light makes haemoglobin in red blood cells 
visible, and as the cells circulate in small veins of the eye you see 
rhythmically circling bright points of light. After noticing these things
once I've been aware of them each time I look at the blue sky 
(post sci-expo permanent sensory disorder).
--
Petrus.Pennanen@helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Info. on nutmeg
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:21:28 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <1992Jul25.042103.7484@cs.su.oz.au>, malcolm@cs.su.oz.au (Malcolm Bjorn Gillies) writes:

> Going off on a slight tangent, the beta-carbolinium cation is of similar
> neurotoxicity to the dihydropyridinium ion which is the active metabolite of
> MPTP. So some Beta-carboline psychedelics may be neurotoxic. Also harman and
> norharman have been shown to be mutagenic.

The article on this subject I read in J.Med.Chem claimed that although it
is the pyridinium cation, or equivalently the beta-carbolinium
cation (very similar structures) which are responsible for the
neurotoxicity, while MPTP is metabolised to the ion in vivo,
beta-carbolines are not. Thus beta-carbolines are probably not
neurotoxic in this way. The mutagenicity of harman derrivatives
has been well documented for many years.
 
> As for the (different) neurotoxicity of MDMA and close relatives - I don't
> believe there is yet enough evidence to establish the absolute safety of
> moderate consumption.
> 
I'd be interested to learn which other amphetamines besides MDA and
MDMA are suspected of having this kind of neurotoxicity.

Jeremy
jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au
Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:04:56 -0400 
From: William Spaulding Wood <ww1i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Apologies

It is my sincerest wish to appologize for my last posting.  I will not
repeat it here, as it was bad enough the first time.  It did provide for
a bit of a contreversy, which, while it was not the intent, was good, I
suppose.  I retract the posting, and hope you can all regard it in
humor, not malice.  I realize the endangerment of such a letter, to
myself and the b.board, thank you for your time, and correspondence.

    ~wig, Running for God in '92