I had one of those "my head is about to explode, unless I find some duct tape" moments yesterday. I was attempting to watch the news last night, and there was an amazing amount of time spent on Rogergate. Some horrible political scandal, you ask? No a private citizen being harrangued by camera-whores about performance- enhancing drugs.

To quote from William Jefferson Clinton, "No congressional investigation ever fed a hungry child." These are some of the same congressmen who shamelessly spouted a bunch of crap about how perjury wasn't important, blah, blah, and verily blah. We heard about how much it was costing the tax-payers on a daily basis to hound an innocent man. We were told that it was his own business, and we should mind ours. And this was the leader of the free world!
Thank God we elected a Democrat congress to use our money more wisely.

Now, in full disclosure, I am a baseball fan, and I am not a fan of Roger Clemens. I think he is a scum-bag for deserting my beloved Boston Red Sox. I think it's great that he might have been shooting up while a member of the Evil Empire. I hope Joe Torre supplied the needles, and George Steinbrenner bent the whole team over the table one by one and held them down. Okay, that last part might have actually happened, but you get the point. But, Strictly in legal terms, if he did do these things, he was doing them at a time when these substances were not banned by Major League Baseball. No one has accused him of using these drugs without a prescription, at least that I have heard.

I am certainly not defending Clemens, and if there is proof he did what he is accused of his records should be stricken or at least put in a seperate section of known cheaters. However, I am sick of the sideshow, and seeing these politicians of both parties pontificating in front of the media for hours just sucks.

Baseball's participants created this mess, and they need to figure out what to do about it on their own time. If they do a good job, maybe they'll gain new fans. If they don't, maybe their fan-base will erode. Just like any other business. What doesn't need to happen is a political dog and pony show. If someone broke the law, let them go through the criminal justice system like any other drug-abuser, but congress has more important things to do.

Wait a minute, congress was busy on television interfering in a sports league. That means they weren't wrecking the economy, or spending money on pork barrel projects named after Robert Byrd, or ... You know what, I think it's high time congress did something about excessive end-zone celebrations in the NFL. And what about over-tattooed, marijuana-smoking hoodlums in the NBA.
I heard there was a 13 year old in northern Virginia on a 12 and under kids soccer team. There, that ought to keep them busy.