Sentence of the Day: John Fairfax Biography

At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.

At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.

:: John Fairfax Obit via The NYTimes ::

This is a pretty spectacular obituary that appeared the times last week.  It’s even more spectacular when you read the gawker followup titled “John Fairfax Loved Hookers, Ten Juicy Stories Omitted from His NYT Obit.”

Treats!

Christian Phillips, 18 years old, is suspected of delivering baskets LSD-laced cookies to about a dozen police departments in Texas. “Our officers took a good whiff and thought they smelled like marijuana,” McGuire said, adding that preliminary tests instead detected traces of LSD. In Fort Worth, at least three officers got sick after eating some cookies and candy from a basket delivered to that police station Monday night, authorities said. Investigators found that Phillips had a list of about two dozen police departments in north Texas, with 13 checked off!

: Hilarity Ensues via AP wire :