Projo Offbeat Blog

-- I wonder if bicycle racing fans explain away the Tour De France's doping problem the way some baseball fans dismiss Major League Baseball's steroid problem.

In baseball, apologists say steroids don't help batters hit 95-mph fastballs. Steroids just make the ball go farther when the batter makes contact.

Hey, blood doping might help bike racers travel faster than a Prius driven by Al Gore III, but it's all up to the racers to keep balanced on those two skinny wheels.

-- If priests do start saying Mass in Latin, I'm wondering how long it will take for many of us to notice.

-- Fewer people would complain if the state dealt with overcrowding problems by closing the beaches to a selective few: fat guys in Speedos, teenagers with boom boxes, kids throwing fits.

-- In New Hampshire, a man allegedly robbed a bank while disguised as a tree. He was caught a short time later. I bet the police would have overlooked him if he'd disguised himself as something smaller, like a fern.

-- Here's a race that's about my speed. In Spain recently, some women have demanded equal treatment. That means cow running as well as bull running.

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