MORE ON MICHAEL PHELPS...

Okay, so I have been thinking to myself "Self, why would a high profile guy like Michael Phelps get himself in such a compromising position as to be photographed with Miss Mary Jane?"

As I said in an earlier post, I don't care if someone indulges in the "wacky weed." Heck, it might be a good advertisement. Here you've got one of the greatest athletes that ever lived involved in what is (should not be) illegal behavior.

It reminds me of when I was a young man. The US had sent about a billion bushels of wheat over to the (for now defunct) USSR because their people were starving to death.

I think it was the 1980 Summer Olympics when the CCCP won about 90% of the gold medals. Good old Johnny Carson (God rest his soul) on "The Tonight Show" praised the Reds, and US. He said, "This is proof that our wheat nourishes the greatest athletes in the world!"

If US wheat can insure gold medals, why not cannabis?

But it was a puzzle to me...Why would Phelps let himself be photographed partaking?

So, I looked into the situation deeper. The Nothington Boast reports:

Olympic Champion Michael Phelps, who vaulted to international stardom during the 2008 Summer Olympics by winning a record eight gold medals in swimming, has been caught in a very compromising position, according to a report by the British paper News of the World. The paper has a photo of Phelps smoking from a bong, a water pipe normally used for smoking marijuana. (View the photo here.) The alleged photo was taken at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where Phelps was visiting a female student who he was secretly seeing.

Well, there ya' go...mystery solved! There was a University of South Carolina chick involved.

Okay...this is a lame attempt at cleaning up my Desktop. I have been holding on to this photo since SEC Football season before last, just waiting for the perfect time to use it. The Gamecocks suck, and always will...there will never be a reason to use it during football season, so I had to dump it somewhere. I didn't want to just send it to the recycling thingy...