MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 This week of media mendacity, poisonous parenting, and a sleep study that will give you nightmares kicked off in Ohio, where a man in Middleton faces multiple years in prison after selling fake urine over the internet. Details come from the Associated Press, which identifies our subject as 61-year-old David Neal, who, according to federal charging documents, began selling illegal substances online in 2006 through his company ACS Herbal Tea. Among the offered products: “Magnum Unisex Synthetic Urine” (reportedly designed to thwart the federal drug tests used to screen airline pilots, train engineers, and FBI agents) and “Quick Flush Herbal Detox Pills,” designed to flush drug residue from a user’s system. Today, Mr. Neal pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, for which he faces up to six years in prison. The moral: Don’t buy drug-free urine over the internet. Buy it from the shifty day care down the street…
