KAIMI WENGER found something interesting at the New York Times website, and now Mickey Kaus is picking up on it:

“The stimulant ephedra is banned from Olympic sports, college sports and the N.F.L.,” wrote George Vecsey in the NYT last week. “It may soon be banned from sale in Suffolk County on Long Island. But it was not banned from the locker of the late Steve Bechler.” And, Vecsey might have added, it’s not banned from the NYT’s web site, which still runs ads for “Ephedra Super Caps: 850 mg. pure ephedra extract.” …

Heh.