Am I unusually cynical in that I assume that all elite athletes in some sports are probably doping? And cycling is perhaps the biggest. I have assumed that Armstrong (and everybody else) was doping all along.

Didn't Armstrong generally use VERY specific language when talking about it, like "I passed x number of tests," rather than saying, "I didn't dope"?

Saying "I didn't get caught" is way different than "I didn't do it."

Yeah, "I have never had a positive test" is pretty much as close as you can get to saying "you never caught me" outright.

It's Friday, maybe I'll start drinking now.

Sounds like a plan.

Anymore I find I don't care about doping. I'm with the cynics, I figure they're all doing it now and excellence is once again the deciding factor. I doubt many of them are unwilling, though I'm sure there are some who don't realize what's really in the "vitamin shots" their coaches are giving them.

we open everything up at night and close it first thing in the morning and it stays lovely in the house all day

What is your house made of, Liese? I've got a standard wood frame-brick facade house, and it does not stay nice and cool during the day.

Y'all know that our bodies are largely made of exploded stars, right?

This is also kinda' cool:

Only by chance did we arise here and now; a hundred billion years from now, many of our bodies atoms will be a part of different stars and solar systems, joined together with atoms that aren’t even a part of our galaxy today.

That's 'cuz in a few billion years, our galaxy will merge with the Andromeda galaxy. 100 billion years from now some of the remnants of our solar system (along with stuff from Andromeda) will have formed new solar systems.

Where will we all be in 100 billion years?

Andromeda F2F! Get your reservations now!

It's wood frame, plywood siding. But we did extra thickness in the walls for more blown-in fill insulation. There's extra insulation everywhere, and we're hoping to put a solar attic fan in soon. That and the window placement and the ceiling fans really does seem to do the trick.

I find this song to be a good one when I am rageful: [link] Love me some kd.

I think Armstrong just figured that he was going to still make bank from his LiveStrong foundation and whatnot. Besides his doping has been an open secret for a long time.

And dang, just tried to read up a bit on those shootings in Chicago. WTF?!? 19 shootings in one night, most within a single 30 minute period? There's something deeply wrong with that.

Am I unusually cynical in that I assume that all elite athletes in some sports are probably doping? And cycling is perhaps the biggest.

It is absolutly rampant in cycling. It's also one of those situations where the cure is quite possibly worse than the disease and there are those who argue that the only way to sustain cycling as a sport is just let it go already and decide not to care.