Double standard for drugs?

So Barry Bonds used steriods? Wow. Pick me up off the floor. I'd have never guessed.

Sports Illustrated is treating the new Bonds book as if it was the tablets coming down from Mt. Sinai.

My problem isn't with outrage over Bonds. The outrage is deserved.

My problem is this: Where was the outrage last summer when a French sports newspaper busted Lance Armstorng? Instead, the story was neatly tucked away in the back of almost every sports section in America. One denial by Armstrong and -- poof-- the story went away.

Is it because the American media wants to believe Armstrong and wants to bury Bonds?

I don't know. But the situations certainly appear to have some similarities.