Young, Promising Athlete Smokes Pot…
…and a nation mourns.
I actively don’t care about Michael Phelps’ smoking marijuana.
(You can tell because I’m writing a blog post about it. As you are no doubt painfully aware, I never write about anything of substance.)
Seriously, have we nothing else to worry about? Economic collapse, perhaps? Multiple, horrible wars, hmmm?
The NYT today devoted several prominent links to a story about a 23-year-old smoking pot, including an analysis of how Phelps’ disciplinary action should have been handled.
Is there no real news because everyone is just too sad?
Because here’s something wretched if you want it:
A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers [in Iraq] has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
And meanwhile, Kellogg will come sniffing back around their champion as soon as the smoke clears (too soon?), and ‘rich, white American male engages in recreational drug use’ will continue to baffle me as a multiple day news item.
ps - While I usually make a point of linking to things I talk about, I broke the links to the NYT’s coverage; no pageviews for this ’story’ from me.
Not that you guys are very clicky anyway. (It’s as though I pointlessly rehash things you already knew about…)
pps- Um, thanks for no one telling me I’d spelled ‘athlete’ wrong for an entire week.
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