[Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert Glusman] has raised the possibility that four Chico fraternity members could be charged with torture in the death of a pledge.See? Our soldiers weren’t torturing prisoners. They were just hazing pledges.
[…]
[21-year-old Matthew Carrington] was forced to drink gallons of water and do calisthenics in a freezing basement in February as part of an initiation rite at Chi Tau fraternity.
He died of heart failure caused by water intoxication.
Those Zany Frat Boys
Looks like Weekly Standard online editor Jonathan V. Last, former U.S. Army sergeant and interrogation instructor Tony Robinson, Nixon crony, sometime actor and game show host, and hawker of eye drops Ben Stein, drug-addled repeat divorcee Rush Limbaugh, and all the other rightwing bullshit artists who claimed that the atrocities at Abu Ghraib were no worse than fraternity pranks can now say they were right. At least, if they’re referring to the (apparently insane) Chi Tau fraternity:
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