What is the point ?

Tell me about it.
"What is the point? That is what must be borne in mind. Sometimes the point is really who wants what.  Sometimes the point is what is right or kind. Sometimes the point is a momentum, a fact, an audit finding, a quality, a voice, an intimation, a thing said or unsaid. Sometimes it's who's at fault, or what will happen if you do not move at once. The point changes and goes out. You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life. But, if you are, for any length of time, custodian of the point- in art, in court, in politics, in sport, in lives, in rooms- it turns out there are rear-guard actions everywhere. Now and then, a small foray is worthwhile. Just so that being constantly, complacently, thoroughly wrong does not become the safest position of them all. The point has never quite been entrusted to me."
  - whored from the Brownstone (a collection of stories from the New Yorker).

Thank you Sandy for making me get the point!
As the world was busy rubbishing Lance Armstrong I was being discreet deleting his picture from my i-phone wallpaper. Just the same my phone had overnight done a Phelps makeover thanks to news media of the world! Somewhere it felt even morally rephrensible at the time to drop my hero, my sex siren just like that. I was feeble and gave in to this whole  "discretion
is the better part of valor" thingy.

But I think I now know better than to blindly follow the mob. Lance was and remains a cycling great; his doping history regardless. You can't pump dope into my system and expect me to churn out a world class performance. It's as simple as that. The only redemption is for me to get him back on my wallpaper and all will be forgiven.

                                    The Day Before

                                     Yesterday

                                   and  Today