RTOTD #733.1

Day 733.1

So... Lance Armstrong has never tested positive for an illegal or banned substance, has never been proven to have cheated, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Cancer research, dominated a sport for a decade, and then because... why the fuck not... he gets all of his Tour De France wins stripped of him today. All on accusations and innuendo.

I'm sorry. I really could not give a fuck less about idiots in spandex riding bicycles up and down mountains. And hell, I blame this guy for bringing about the "let's ride bicycles everywhere" fad that I still have to deal with when operating my motor vehicle. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have to deal with 30-something asshats that ride a bicycle down the center of a street at 10 miles under the speed limit while not getting out of the way of actual traffic. They then entirely ignore all posted road signs and traffic laws, demand a greater "safe passing zone" than even other cars have, and generally just act like entitled fuckwits.

As a result of Lance Armstrong being so damn good at his chosen pastime (it's not a sport. Sorry, riding a bicycle, even endurance racing, is not a sport), he gave birth to the new reality of cars having the lowest priority on the roads so that bicycle assholes can be not on the sidewalk (where they belong) because the walker and jogger cocksuckers don't want to share that path of concrete.

If there's anyone on the planet with more reason to hate the side-effects of Lance Armstrong being good at riding a child's form of transportation, it's me. I'd love to go back in time and Nancy Kerrigan his knee to make sure he never ends up starting this bicycle craze. If so, I wouldn't want to put a cow catcher on the front of my car to take care of bicycle assholes and fucking Pitt kids that don't know how to cross the street in Oakland.

But at the same time... the fucking guy has never been proven guilty of a damn thing. At least they had to prove that Pete Rose actually HAD a gambling problem to ban his ass. Even if they didn't prove that he gambled on baseball. But accusations and innuendo are reasons to actually investigate and try to find proof. They are NOT reasons to cast judgment.

All that I've seen so far is that they don't have any actual proof, but they "know he did something bad because nobody could have been that good", so they're just going to punish him anyway.

Guess that's the way of the world now... no matter if someone gets there through honest or dishonest means, if they're too successful, we're going to punish them no matter what just because they're successful. Doesn't matter if it's a corrupt Fortune 500 CEO or an athlete or an honest business man or artist or whatever. Doesn't matter. Too successful? Punish them. Fuck having proof that they actually did something to justify it. If they have proof? Awesome. If not, fuck it... just punish them anyway. Cause we know they did something wrong without needing proof. Fuck due process.

Cause that's the way we do things now, it seems. And it's for that reason that I really wish I didn't have to live in the world some days.