George Carlin, the great stand-up comedian, died of heart failure on Sunday, June 22, 2008 in Santa Monica at the age of 71. Carlin had a problem with many aspects of American culture. But one thing he did not have a problem with was steroids in sports. He wrote about steroids in his best-selling book, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops
It annoys me when people complain about athletes taking steroids to improve athletic performance. It’s a phony argument, because over the years every single piece of sports equipment used by athletes has been improved many times over. Golf balls and clubs; tennis balls, racquets; baseball gloves and bats; football pads and helmets and so on through every sport. Each time technology has found a way to improve equipment it has done so. So why shouldn’t a person treat his body the same way? In the context of sports, the body is nothing more than one more piece of equipment, anyway. So why not improve it with new technology? Athletes use weights, why shouldn’t they use chemicals? Read more
