Once More Into The Breech...

Over at the Washington Post, an incredibly naive, inane, lackluster and incompetent journalist named Emily Messner tries, not too hard though, to tackle the issue of performance enhancing drugs in sports.

Ms Messner details how the earliest reference she can find that discusses such behavior was from a 1982 NY Times article, and one wonders if there are any reporters still alive who remember the furor over the Eastern Bloc nation's use of anabolic steroids in every Olympic games dating back to the early '50's.

Would have been nice for someone to tell her that asylum seeking athletes brought all sorts of recipes with them back then, and how records from the old Soviet Union go into great detail describing the type of drugs used to assure dominance over the West.

If you follow the link, you can be treated to enough drivel as to make a grown man regurgitate, such as...
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Sportsmanship means taking losses graciously.
By not playing fair, PED-using athletes prove that they aren't good losers. Otherwise, why take such a win-at-any-cost approach?
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You may have heard about this new form of trade, Ms. Messner. No longer must people carry large chunks of precious metals with them, as a system has developed whereby promissory notes are exchanged for goods and services. The greater one's value to society, the more of these notes are obtained. Athletes use this system to achieve great fame and fortune, and generally speaking, refer to it as making M O N E Y.

And, as has been pointed out on these pages, men and women have long devoted countless hours of excruciating endeavor in order to excel at "sports" that are oft times exceedingly deleterious to their health. Boxers, football players, race car drivers, and many others actually DIE while participating in these events, so to quibble about an athletes health is unreasonably silly. People all over the world pay top dollar to see other people destroy themselves. We don't give a tinkers dam about their well being, but some of us do like to know that the playing field is an even one.