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(Tom Toles,
In case you missed the news from earlier in the week:
In a devastatingly critical report, a World Anti-Doping Agency panel accused the Russian government on Monday of complicity in widespread doping and cover-ups by its track and field athletes and said they should all be banned from competition — possibly even next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — until the country cleans up its act.It's been likened to a culture that can be traced back to Soviet- era athletics: cheat for the greater glory of the motherland and the system (and because everyone else must be cheating, too). As a product of the Soviet system and a person without identifiable moral scruples, we would not be "shocked, shocked" to think that Russian President Vladimir "Vlad the Invader" Putin not only knew about but encouraged this behavior.
