Aqua Dots, bedfellows, water, and fat

Forget lead! I just learned that they're putting date-rape-drug precursors in children's toys, so Aqua Dots, which melt together when you put water on them, will kill you! Ok, maybe they won't kill you, but young women should refrain from swallowing them at parties.

I picked up a couple of other things on my way to learning about the toys:

• In political news, the Slog reports that to Pat Robertson, being pro-torture is more important than being anti-abortion or anti-gay. (I think it's probably hard being Pat Robertson.)
• You can build a ginormous water park in Mesa, AZ that will still use less water than an 18-hole golf course.
• Being fat won't kill you.

I'm pleased that they got us straight on that last one; sometimes you have to take stuff off the list to maintain conservation of death-inducing stuff.