- A House committee will investigate whether the Baltimore Orioles slugger committed perjury by testifying under oath that he never took performance-enhancing drugs.
Yet another splinter group of drug warriors is trying to stamp out abuse of its own particular favorite devil's brew. Surely, if only professional athletes (and their emulators, and people with obsessions to look/play/feel better) would just stop using this one kind of chemical, we'd all be better off. We could relax with a beer or six and watch major league baseball on the TeeVee, secure in the knowledge that nobody was 'cheating' us out of our pollyanna belief in the virtue of the 'American Game'. Unless of course you prefer football (no, not real football, American Football), in which case I leave it to you to believe that those 400 pounders did it all with hard work and a full training table.
Meanwhile, while we pretend we're stopping our pure innocent young men from following professional athletes down the road of chemical degradation, we're preparing to send them to Iraq, to be killed or wounded for no achievable goal. Except to stoke the fancies of a reality-challenged president.
Thanks Congress. Thanks Congressman Tom Davis.
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