Weekend reading for radicals and derelicts
The following are some of the interesting stories I've run across this week...-- First, the numerous hypocrisies of drug testing in our favorite sports continue unabated. The World's Anti-Doping Code bans a substance if it meets two of the following three criteria: 1) it endangers the participant's health, 2) it enhances performance, and 3) it violates "the spirit of sport." William Saletan thinks the third is bogus, and the other two are murky. How, indeed, can human growth hormone be banned if the FDA, National Institute of Health, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists have vouched for its safety? I still want to know why laser eye surgery isn't banned in competition.
-- The efforts of First Amendment hero Larry Flynt to stamp out government hypocrisy continue unabated, as well.
-- The fascinating life of Leo Lazarus ended last month.
-- Whatever happened to our all-time favorite "actor-slash-magician-slash-comic-slash-Mel Torme aficionado" Harry Anderson? He rode out Hurricane Katrina on the second floor of his New Orleans nightclub and is now busy rebuilding the French Quarter joint.
Mardi Gras returns to New Orleans this weekend. Gather ye vices while ye may.
posted by CM @ 12:54 PM
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