David H. Brooks, Chairman and CEO of a body-armor firm made rich through fat military contracts, was obsessed with the idea of creating a “memory-erasing pill,” and badgered a veterinarian for help designing one. This and other revelations of his taxpayer-funded eccentricities in a NYT bombshell today. He reportedly used his expense account to pay for “pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, prostitutes for his employees, and, for him, a $100,000 American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds.”