Give it to Mikey, he’ll try anything
Poor Michael Phelps. The guy can’t get a break since he was caught making out with a bong. I find the whole thing to be so utterly ridiculous that I almost want to friend him on Facebook. And I’m not even a fan! Sure, I was enthralled with him back at The Cube. But each time he opens his mouth or walks around with his hip bones jutting into my eye-space, I find myself cringing just a little.
Still. Who cares if the guy smokes weed? What is the big deal? As a friend of a friend so eloquently points out here, he isn’t shooting EPO. Or other people. Sports hero or not, this strikes me as a relatively minor offense. Of course, it’s just weed and I believe it should be legalized (imagine the influx of money into our economy if it were regulated). This misstep will likely cost him lucrative sponsorships but if Britney Spears can come back from the brink, so to can Phelps.
I’m encouraged that the IOC and his sponors are still behind him. Of course, they could still pull an Obama on him, praising him one day and kicking him to the curb the next. Oh, I’m so sad to have to diss our new president like that! Bitter, bitter political reality.
I believe he has just signed with Zig Zag, phew the advertising will continue.
I get the same feeling when I see him.
Love,
The Bumpkin
@Ms. Pamela: Knocking Obama all ready? Jeeze. Must I talk you back from the ledge *twice* in one day? I guess all the great stuff he’s doing (putting some restrictions on extraordinary rendition, ending the global gag rule, closing Guantanamo, signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act) doesn’t count for anything? He’s got to meet people in the middle (can you friggin’ believe I’m saying this stuff?!?) or else we just mind find ourselves with a President Palin come 2012. Call me crazy, but with that fate, I’d put my finger up to the wind, too.
@The Bumpkin: Isn’t that Zig-Zag thing cool? I also heard he’ll be the July cover model for High Times, will be marketing a new protein bar called 4-20 and that he wants to name his first daughter MaryJane.
I’m pretty outraged by the whole pot thing too. It’s just so beyond ridiculous that our society sees pot almost on par with meth or crack, and yet smoking tobacco is totally moral.
God I hate hypocrisy.
I just wish Michael Phelps hadn’t come out with a statement, calling his smoking a mistake, and bad judgement and blah, blah, blah. We need more people (like Olympic gold medal winners) coming out of the weed smoking closet.
Yes, you’re the realist today and I’m the naive, vulnerable liberal.
Too bad That ’70s Show is off air. I would have like to have seen Michael Phelps do a guest appearance in one of those 360-degree scenes in Forman’s basement.
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