Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 18, 2014

Is Duke seeing large bats again?-(Did the Post pay an actor to play the newsboy?)

It’s every other team calling to see if they can get his services.

They didn’t have whistleblower laws back then.

If they just made all narcotics legal for recreational use we wouldn’t have this problem.

So why is it that steroids are illegal. If all athletes were allowed to use them that would be a fair playing field. If athletes want to take the risk of the side affects of steroids it should be their decision. Just like all drugs should be legal, if you want a job you will need to pass the drug test.

Whoa, rpmurray said something that almost made sense!

Anyone notice the byline on the Post?

Did anyone else notice the reporter by-line? Trudeau was on top of his game then as well as now.

I’m in favor of legalizing marijuana, if only to mitigate the slaughter in Mexico, plus rampant crime attendant upon the drug trade. I don’t know about legalizing all drugs. When I was a Voc Rehab counselor, I had a fellow referred to me who was completely out of it. He said something like he’d written one hundred novels, and similar stuff. He said that he had had unlimited access to cocaine while in Colombia for a long period. I don’t know whether the cocaine was responsible, but he claimed he’d been ok before he went to Colombia.

Didn’t really need to be told this is from nearly 40 years ago — people reading printed news.

Yes, timely…

Widespread changes in the sports because of that . . . they evolved from uppers to steroids.

@johnschutt, When was the last time you contacted your Federal Representatives and demanded that they outlaw drug testing, so that nobody would be on the govt. dole??

https://screen.yahoo.com/weekend-drug-olympics-000000571.html

Norbert Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as “the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.”2 The word cybernetics comes from Greek κυβερνητική (kyverni̱tikí̱), meaning “governance”, i.e. all that are pertinent to κυβερνώ (kyvernó̱), the latter meaning “to steer, navigate or govern”, hence κυβέρνησις (kyvérni̱sis), meaning “government”, is the government while κυβερνήτης (kyverní̱ti̱s) is the governor or the captain. Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, logic modeling, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences. During the second half of the 20th century cybernetics evolved in ways that distinguish first-order cybernetics (about observed systems) from second-order cybernetics (about observing systems).3 More recently there is talk about a third-order cybernetics (doing in ways that embraces first and second-order).4

Fields of study which have influenced or been influenced by cybernetics include game theory, system theory (a mathematical counterpart to cybernetics), perceptual control theory, sociology, psychology (especially neuropsychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology), philosophy, architecture, and organizational theory.[5

Taken that way, a cyborg or cybernetic organism isn’t just a tool using human or one with prosthetics..To each his own, though.

I’ve stopped reading these reprints! La-la-la-la-la-la-la…. I know you are but what am I?

and Richard Redfern got to break the story. Now… now he just emails it in.

And Rick Redfern wrote the story.

Probably a nice change from th ususl Washington stuff for Rick…