Middle-school students have been choking eachother to achieve a euphoric state (Joe Barrack)
One day, sometime close to the ungodly time of 5:50 a.m., I turned on the television machine and put on the local news, hoping to find some ridiculous story that would help me get my bearings. My prayers were shortly answered: Middle school children were, in an effort to get high, choking each other to the point of unconsciousness, which I found to be the stupidest thing I had heard in a long time.
I should say now, before I continue, that I am not asserting that I am some kind of genius—I solve Rubik’s cubes with a hammer, and I’ve watched the movie “Pet