Muscle Building Blog

Editorial Note: I was going to write about the Senate and the current disastrous state of healthcare reform, with the outlook worsening even as the end nears, happening in large part thanks to Max Baucus. But that can wait until Monday. Keith Olbermann had an hour-long “Special Comment” show last night (10/7/2009) on his MSNBC show regarding healthcare reform, its immediacy, the joke that has become the American Congress, and more – a point that I’ve been making in various forms for

Having set a world record, 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya is being subjected to extensive “gender testing.” Misrepresentations of intersex notwithstanding, this controversy has brought the idea of non-binary gender to MSNBC, the AP , and NPR and The Nation Magazine. What do you think can be done with our current binary-gender/sex-based sports segregation to achieve fair competition? For instance, David Zirin suggests on NPR separation by muscle mass or weight class.