TBGO, Blaaah-di-blaaah...: Where De $$$ Go?; Laughing; Snark Supreme; Paz, Hermano

Ya Gotta Ask? Really? 

DUH! It went into stock prices, and executive compensation, and public relations, mainly.
Oh, and mergers-and-acquisitions. 
And golf tournaments, A LOT of golf tournaments, for men, women and seniors. 
And soccer teams, and stock cars, and speedboats. Operas, and symphonies, too.
Important stuff. 
And dat shit ain't CHEAP, you know. 
Couldn't have decent circuses without all that, now could ya?
No, it didn't go to the workers. But they didn't really miss it; not til  now...And now? It's too late.

A Good Joke, Innit?

It's not true, is the only problem I see.
American kids in "decently" funded, staffed and maintained middle-class schools score as well or better than kids in competing countries on internationally comparable standards. Overall, USer test scores fall below those of other countries because more than 25 percent of USer students live in poverty. Poverty is the single greatest cause of academic failure. The ZIP Code of USer student is a better predictor of academic success than ANY test scores.

And Russia, among other places, has a higher, per capita, load of addicts, too.

Snarkilicious!

This is a killer snark!@ I love it...
Joking aside, however, Lance Armstrong is a repellant, manipulative, narcissistic, psychopathic ass-whole.
He suborned his WHOLE TEAM (the US Postal Service!) to cheat along with him, and to assist in the cheating, and to dope themselves to aid the cover-up...
Unlike juicers and 'roiders in other sports like baseball, who sullied only their own reps, Lance took everyone around him down with him...And for that he deserves all the opprobrium that should befall him, and should be shunned by anyone with ANY pretensions to honor.

RIP, Mike Kitts. Another good man, gone down. An IATSE man to the end! I'll getcha that beer somewhere, sometime, pardner...Paz, hermano.