{"id":2004,"date":"2005-12-14T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/14\/gee-maybe-taking-steroids-isnt-so-bad\/"},"modified":"2005-12-14T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T14:28:10","slug":"gee-maybe-taking-steroids-isnt-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"Gee, maybe taking steroids isn&#039;t so bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,178017,00.html\"><strike>Randy<\/strike> Radley Balko questions<\/a> if Congress really has any business preaching fairness to pro ball players:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">Representative Davis and fellow baseball antagonists say steroids and amphetamines give athletes an &#8220;unfair advantage&#8221; over the competition. Never mind that after the 2000 census, Davis led efforts to gerrymander his own congressional district to ensure he&#8217;d never need to worry about re-election. Due to gerrymandering, Davis ran unopposed in 2002, as did one in five of his congressional colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Davis also recently sneaked a provision into federal legislation that prevented an apartment complex from going up in his district because, according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, he feared it would bring too many Democrats into the area.<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/12\/keep_your_level.shtml\">Hit and Run<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Radley Balko questions if Congress really has any business preaching fairness to pro ball players: Representative Davis and fellow baseball antagonists say steroids and amphetamines give athletes an &#8220;unfair advantage&#8221; over the competition. Never mind that after the 2000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}