It's not the crime; it's the cover-up

I don't take sports doping all that seriously. Yeah, it's cheating, and they shouldn't do it, but there's a lot of worse stuff going on. Yesterday, the NY Post front page said that Lance Armstrong was one of the worst liars in all human history. This from a paper that enthusiastically cheered on the George W. Bush lies that got thousands of people killed in Iraq. I was closer to what Charlie Pierce said:

The man beat Stage Four cancer that began in his balls and spread to his brain, and I'm supposed to stop admiring him because, for the purpose of winning a bike race, he may have arranged to use too much of his own blood?

On the other hand, it appears that in order to cover up for the doping, Armstrong set out to ruin the lives of anyone who had the goods on him. Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses.

It's not the heat; it's the humility

Is anyone surprised that David Brooks's course on Humility assigns writings by David Brooks?

RIP Mary Gray

Another old friend from about 30 years in fandom together. I used to see her at SciCon every year, and we've stayed in touch via zines and lj (She was meggins)

Speculations

John Crowley on Giordano Bruno

Thanx to bookslut