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America is awesome. Remember in Independence Day when it turned out the president was an ex-fighter pilot? Or in Armageddon when we discovered that most of our problems can be solved by huge men with rippling muscles? We used to live in the era of the superlative, when people like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and Sylvester Stallone seemed to be the embodiment of the American dream.

What the hell? This is what we've been waiting twenty months for?

Here's the lead from CNN: "Illegal steroids have been in widespread use in Major League Baseball for more than a decade and used by some of the game's top stars, former Sen. George Mitchell said in releasing a report Thursday."

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor.