Beloki retires

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 12:06 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Kurgan likes to make the point that you can't expect to get
> > rid of performance enhancing drugs in a culture that tolerates
> > recreational drugs. I actually don't agree because I think
> > the motivations are different. People do recreational drugs
> > because they don't mind bending the rules to have fun, but
> > PEDs because they bend the rules to succeed. I think you
> > won't get rid of PEDs in a culture that valorizes success
> > over ethics. It's all Ayn Rand's fault.
>
> dumbass,
>
> i disagree with chang because it seems to me the popularity of a
> specific rec. drug is usually tied in with some cultural movement, for
> instance the "rave" scene.
>
> or this :
> http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/1054760
>
> but there are some similarities the users share. i think i saw
> something that suggested that people with a risk taking personality
> were also more likely to dope for sports. makes sense to me. drinking
> and smoking doesn't make you cool, but all the cool people smoke and
> drink.

At this point, I think we have to acknowledge that drinking is such an
unalloyed good that it should be subsidized and PSA'd.

LIVEDRUNK lives.

If you don't talk to your children about terroir, who will?

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Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos