[Slime bomb: It's an explosive issue]

This article is subtitled "It's not always done out of malice, but when our anger flies -- so does our spittle." And, of course, it refers to Lerxst and his incident at the Ritz-Carlton.

... We have seen that in sports and in life through the years -- human hatred reduced to spittle. It's our venom. Our viscous vitriol. Our mobile bile. There are countless instances of inhospitable spittle. In the early 1990s, an AIDS patient in Ohio spat his infected blood at a nurse and law officers. In the late 1990s, rapper Foxy Brown was accused of spitting at a couple of hotel employees. Last year a man spit in the face of Jane Fonda in Kansas City. Alex Lifeson, guitarist for the band Rush, allegedly spit in the face of a deputy sheriff at a Fort Myers hotel. ...

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