To give you a sense of how slow this news day is, the top story on Memeorandum as I write this is that video of Palin and the protester. And then there’s this, I guess.

Here’s a perfect example of an anecdote whose tone changes entirely depending upon the subject’s gender. Kidnapping a woman friend in a stoner haze to make her pray to “Aqua Buddha”? Alarming. Kidnapping a guy friend in a stoner haze to make him pray to “Aqua Buddha”? College hijinks-y fun.

The strangest episode of Paul’s time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 (although memories about all of these events are understandably a bit hazy, so the date might be slightly off), when he and a NoZe brother paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul’s teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, “He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They’d been smoking pot.” After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. “They told me their god was ‘Aqua Buddha’ and that I needed to bow down and worship him,” the woman recalls. “They blindfolded me and made me bow down to ‘Aqua Buddha’ in the creek. I had to say, ‘I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.’ At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no.”

Nearly 30 years later, the woman is still trying to make sense of that afternoon. “They never hurt me, they never did anything wrong, but the whole thing was kind of sadistic. They were messing with my mind. It was some kind of joke.” She hadn’t actually realized that Paul wound up leaving Baylor early. “I just know I never saw Randy after that—for understandable reasons, I think.”

The moral of the story: To minimize skin-crawling creepiness, always always always limit your target to guys when planning a possibly criminal drug-fueled(?) abduction prank. Says Dave Weigel, “[T]he real question is obvious: Does Rand think the Civil Rights Act prevents restaurants from discriminating against worshippers of Aqua Buddha?”

Speaking of Paul, and also via Weigel, here’s video of what appears to be a Jack Conway supporter “posing” as a Paul voter at a Rand rally. Is he really posing, though? The guy appears to be wearing an honest-to-goodness tinfoil hat, for cripes sake. Smells like mockery to me, not a false-flag operation.