scottobear | 6586 multiple choice, and oddball news.

This morning, I preferred an extra 20 min to -

A. sleep

B. eat breakfast

(C. have a nice shower)

D. surf the web / LJ

E. Other (_____________________)

And so I did. I may be a bit hungry, sleepy, and behind on my journal... but I'm clean!

The Baroque Bohemian Cats' Tarot.

State police have charged a 15-year-old Latrobe girl with child pornography for taking photos of herself and posting them on the Internet. Police said the girl, whose identity they withheld, photographed herself in various states of undress and performing a variety of sexual acts. She then sent the photos to people she met in chat rooms.

She has been charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.

I wonder if she'll be listed in the sexual offender logs, and be required to register her location whenever she moves, now?

LSD use is way down in recent years, according to arrest records, hospital records, and surveys with high schoolers. Slate looked into it, and came up with two reasons why. First and foremost, the DEA busted a couple of guys in rural Kansas back in 2000, who supplied 95 percent of the country's acid. The other reason is the breakup of the Grateful Dead.

"The LSD market took an earlier blow in 1995, when Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia died and the band stopped touring. For 30 years, Dead tours were essential in keeping many LSD users and dealers connected, a correlation confirmed by the DEA in a divisional field assessment from the mid-'90s. The spring following Garcia's death (the season the MTF surveys are administered), annual LSD use among 12th-graders peaked at 8.8 percent and began their slide. Phish picked up part of the Dead's fan base—and presumably vestiges of the LSD delivery system. At the end of 2000, Phish stopped touring as well, and perhaps not coincidentally, the MTF numbers for LSD began to plummet."