Staten Island, known to most in the tri-state area as a mecca of subtlety and restraint, has in its borders a liquor depository/social gathering place called The Phunky Elephant, a bar that, until recently, boasted on its menu something called a "Roofie Colada." Some patrons, it turns out, were not pleased with their…

A conservative think tank has embarked upon a quest to convince us all that women worry way too much about getting drugged and raped. This is an interesting hill to die on.

Most of us ignore those skeevy ads in the back of magazines that promise readers mass amounts of weight loss, ecstatic sex, and bountiful heads of hair in exchange for a few bucks plus shipping and handling. But at least one ad deserves our full attention.

Just in time for Valentine's Day: a big fleece pillow that you can customize with the name of a date rape drug. Is the uncanny valley stock photo model included, or does that cost extra? Also, how much does it cost to ship a pillow to Chicago from the video for Black Hole Sun?

Twelve young women were hospitalized this weekend after apparently being drugged with roofies at a party. Police have arrested one man — but the victims may be punished too.

• Last Friday afternoon, a woman taking an adult education class at the Met lost her balance and fell onto a Picasso painting. "The Actor," a painting from Picasso's Roe Period, suffered a six-inch tear in its lower right-hand corner.

Worst first sentence ever: "Date-rape drugs are largely an urban myth used as an excuse by women who booze themselves into a stupor, it has been claimed." [Daily Mail]

"For the record, I really was roofied, ma'am. [...] P.S. The day I rely more on a boyfriend than on a best girlfriend is the day I lose hope for womankind." — Friend Or Foe letter-writer [Double X]

Lucinda Rosenfeld is shocked that her readers think a woman who was roofied might also have been raped, and deserved a more serious response. Rosenfeld says, "I have to admit, I did not think of that at the time." [DoubleX]

The UK-based cosmetics company 2LoveMy has launched a new lip gloss that doubles as a date-rape drug detection kit.

According to a story in January's Marie Claire (posted online yesterday), Hong Kong prostitutes are slipping roofies to businessmen in order to rob them. Some say it's a way to turn the tables on men.

• According to a new government study, a few extra pounds won't kill you! [ABC News]
  
• Or they will kill you! Science daily says the overweight risk dying from cardiovascular disease, and the underweight have increased mortality from a shitload of other diseases! [Science Daily]
  
• Guess what? A TON of other things besides…