Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1595 Editor's Choice: 126
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lynx-sanctioned
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It gives you an advantage you don't DESERVE. If you lift hard and work out hard and take legal supplements - you deserve your gains (until those supplements are determined to be illegal).
Right, but I'm talking about making them legal.
You find me a safe anabolic steroid
In large part for that very reason: safety.
Try telling your kid that you he shouldn't use steroids when all the guys in the bigs are bragging about the greatness
It is the same as telling your kid he shouldn't drink even though adults are talking about the great time they had at the bar/party.
Drinking is not immoral - Jesus enjoyed some wine
I'm not saying you shouldn't take your morality from there, but not everyone does. There are many valid sources of morality, but once you make Jesus the arbiter, you're locking many out. Of course, you may just be using him as an example of a moral person who enjoyed wine, and that's fine, I'm just saying judging things to be moral can be different from person to person.
When I was a kid, I idolized Jim Thorpe. He was an amazing athlete, never trained a day in his life yet set records in the Olympics that would last decades. Played any sport he cared to and played it at a pro level. When Bruce Jenner beat his record 70 years later, I didn't want to accept it. Jenner trained all his life, had the benefits of modern medicine and nutriution and technology. Hell, even growing up how, where and when he did gave him an advantage. In the end though, Jenner did beat the record, whatever caveats I cared to pour on it. Times change, technology changes. We shouldn't be ruling out currently illegal performance enhancing drugs simply because that's not how things used to be. We should test these things, ensure their safety, protect the health of the athletes and accept that times change.
The current system isn't stopping anyone that wants to use them. When tests catch up to the doping, new doping is invented. All this does is expend huge resources in time and money and continue to endanger the health of the athletes. It also continues to unbalance the playing field. Even without these enhancements, they shorten their lives every day just from playing many of these sports. They shorten them further with illegal, unregulated drugs. I'd like to give them the benefit of supervision, regulation and safety in the hopes that they might live better and longer in the end.
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Just a book push
[Read the article: Honk if you want to stop global warming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "environmentalist" author is deliberately picking unrealistic data for his calculations. If he wants to make it a true comparison, he needs to include the carbon footprint of manufacturing the car, the steel, rubber, plastics and other componants, the cost of drilling for the oil and the manufacture of all the tools that requires, the cost of transporting the fuel to the pumps AND the cost of the food the person will be eating anyway. Of course, he could also assume that the person is eating a more balanced diet instead of just beef. Or is he comparing this to driving a hummer?
Sounds like another vegan trying to scare people out of eating meat. Sad that they have to lie to even make the attempt.
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Parades
[Read the article: "Show me your hose"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No-one should HAVE to march in any parade or participate in any rally. This includes all the holiday parades, though tannit's comment above seems to indicate he's against all holiday parades. 'cause really, take away the fire/police/etc. from holiday parades and you have 3 boy scouts and a marching band left in most American towns. Not much of a parade. Also tannit, In many of these parades, that's the only time these public servants get to feel the appreciation of the community they serve. Do you really want to take that away from them on the highly dubious notion that it'd save tax dollars?
--Clockwork Smurf
"all I have to say is that if a few shouts of "Show me your hose!" lead them to litigate, they should never visit the Broadsheet comments section. "
Umm...Ms. Price...read that quote again and imagine a woman asked as part of her job, if she'd like to see someone's hose. See how your statement is a little...shall we say, unfeeling?
I believe she means that you need a thick skin to venture into the comments section here as many commenters are quite abusive. She's not saying that behavior is ok, just that it is all too prevalent here.
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Records
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I logged into the letters column fairly late, I don't pay that much attention to baseball, but King usually can find something interesting and there's usually a few good letters too. I'm more likely to read a baseball column when it comes to the debate over what constitutes a "record" and how changing technology/"doping" affects these records.
The main reason I checked was that there were 90 responses and as that's more than usual I thought there might be a good discussion going on. Turns out Wesley_Powell accounted for 40 of the 90. And he didn't really say much of anything. He's willing to research stats, if he could pause long enough to form those 40 posts into a coherant set of thoughts, he might actually have something to say.
I blame Twitter.