Lawmakers tested after lead found in US Capitol office water fountains

New York Post ^ | 7/6/2016 | Daniel Halper

[maine-iac7]

you post: “ Yea, but does this also prove conclusively that it’s linked to evil?”

Think Caligula.

He had an elaborate plumbing system - lead pipes - on his huge private ships -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-DVLBlufY

Caligula the mad man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucA7P_3dqAo

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Flint not Detroit.

[Moonman62]

Some have proposed the theory but it’s probably not true.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html

[ptsal]

Now, I know why the newly elected go “stupid” once they get elected.

[Bellflower]

There must sure be a whole lot of lead in that there water!

[Axenolith]

Good point, though they also sweetened wine with lead acetate because it is sweet (and people bitched about saccharin!)