NO MORE BOOZE FOR YOU, HUCK FISH: Says judge

Dynamite-packing Huck Fish was granted bail yesterday in Houston, according to wire services.

From the Associated Press: "No future court appearances were yet scheduled after U.S. Magistrate Judge Calvin Botley lectured Howard MacFarland Fish, a junior majoring in biology at the Easton, Pa., college about the importance of attending all court dates and meeting all other bail requirements, including a ban on drinking."

Perhaps after seeing the young Fish with two overserved girls among a batch of Lafayette drinking party photos posted to the web, AP reported the judge commanded the student go dry.
"I'm requiring that you don't go to beer halls, nightclubs, day clubs or any kinds of clubs," said the judge, according to AP. Fish was described as "subdued and nervous."

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Late coming in: The Lafayette student who had posted the photo album of power drinking at a spring wing-ding e-mailed DD blog. The message was that the article on Huck Fish was uncalled for. And it seemed DD had never been to college.

DD understands the dismay. Fun photos of Lafeyette students in drunken stupors -- now since expunged from a web college photo album -- aren't so fun anymore, for obvious reasons. So I struck the repeat image of young Fish in this piece.

But it stays in the original because Huck Fish was and is security news. Fish was in just about every newspaper in the country, often in articles on front pages. And the interesting aspect of the entire foul-up is the blackly comical exposure of news that dynamite can be packed in some baggage and roll through a foreign airport and onto an airplane bound for the US.

And, yes, I did go to college, even visiting Lafayette a few times. Imagine that.