That's awesome. Didn't know that one yet.

I totally missed that!

This guy... does not make sense. At all.

Yeah. Plus the myriad people who spontaneously dropped dead in the early nineties from strokes, blood cloths and heart attacks. There's a host of them.

Because a) legalizing doping doesn't level the playing field, that's a myth - its effects depend on your constitution - b) doping is expensive, so the ones with the deepest pockets get an even greater advantage than they already do- c) many doping products are really fucking dangerous and people have died using them…

Good publicity + huge sponsor contracts + cancer charity diversion whenever someone started to ask pesky questions (he never missed a beat in bringing it up). Win-win-win situation, really.

Sure it's important. But also important is not ruining people's livelihoods and threatening their personal safety to save your own ass. The one doesn't undo the other.

Then again, it leaves the voice. The Voice, It is Beautiful.

"Tell me again why they don't just skip the month of thankless trudging and get Gwaihir & Co. to fly them straight to the Lonely Mountain in the first place? And Mt. Doom too, for that matter?"

No, we talk about not judging people for their - entirely - personal decisions by some random standard of your own/society.

I read that too. Quite apart from the did-he-or-didn't-he question, the picture of Armstrong that's arisen in the years past isn't a pretty one. The stories about Armstrong's bullying - either by his own hands or through lawyer types and entourage - are now coming fast and furiously, each confirming what the other…

Too many holes in evo story, too little time.

I don't know who said it but it's true: as a professional woman, if it's not in your job description, don't bring coffee, and don't bake.

Your statement that the community is the polluter is simply counterfactual and, frankly, intellectually bankrupt. It is demonstrably false, and I have demonstrated it to be false in my last post, so I think we've reached an impasse there, between your interests and the facts.

I'm not ignoring anything. What I'm saying is that the cost of it shouldn't fall to the individual - or the woman, to be more specific. Yes, I do maintain that the community is the polluter. As a taxpayer, I pay for car emissions, because the incentives for cleaner cars are paid for by taxes. Electrical car…

No, I sort of am too. :)

Fine, but take into account all those times when you just can't bridge or fight the differences because they're not wrong or obvious or...

I once had a boss who talked about candidates for a job and remarked about the female ones that "they'd just get pregnant and we'll lose them".

This guy doesn't happen to be half Lebanese half American, does he?

By the way, simply saying, 'well, it's up to you to get your half, even if the price goes up by x%' is also black-and-white thinking. Try to get your one-night stand to chip in for a month of pilll use and see who's laughing you out of the room. I said 'couples', but what I meant was two people having hetero sex. And…