"rw" wrote in message
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rb608 wrote:

Now, the one incident may not have been the only
incident, but I seriously doubt Phelps is a chronic or habitual pot
smoker. One time gets you the label "doper"?

In the celebrity media world, yes it does.

my two cents, **** Kellogg's. It shows a over sensitivity to an event that
should blow over quickly(of course, not helped by media hype and the
swimming oversight body suspending him for 3 months. Were I Phelps(who, I
suspect might have made an adequate amount of money without the further
inflow from Kelloggs), I would immediately announce out of the next
Olympics, so the national Olympic Committee and Swimming Organization can
find another cash cow to milk.
Moreover, the really disturbing part of the story is that he was
photographed at a private college party in the first place. We are seeing,
before our eyes(and, thanks to the type of narrow-minded opinions express by
a couple of folks here),a complete erosion of personal privacy. And, it
isn't the government that has created big-brother, it is a bunch of average
types armed with cell-phone cams and the like, with so little moral fiber as
to be willing to sell out a 23 year old kid at a party. Once again, I am
reminded of Walt Kelly's line, "we have met the Enemy, and he is Us.".
Tom