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It's good to vent. :-)
BTW, I didn't say "I don't care if some random anonymous person named Randy's son takes steroids to make the NHL" because I do care.
And our congressmen and women are trying to determine whether or not Roger Clemens lied.
Terrific.
Is it just me, or is Twitter how the Matrix is going to begin?
The questions they were asking Roger Clemens were not investigatory, but accusatory. And it really got absurd when they talked about the nanny.
If they asked me about someone who worked for my wife a decade ago, someone I always addressed by her first name, I probably wouldn't be able to come up with a surname, and I certainly wouldn't be able to come up with an address (although I might be able to drive there.) So this was on a Friday afternoon, and I ask my wife that evening, and I call my attorney that night. He leaves a note for his secretary to phone the information to the congresscritter's office. His secretary isn't going to be working on Saturday or Sunday, nor is there going to be anyone at the congresscritter's office over the weekend. So they get the information on Monday. Yet, they wanted to make a big deal about it, as if it's his fault for not having an eidetic memory.
Then he invites this sweet lady, as he described her, over to his house. For one thing, I'd want to warn her that they were going to browbeat her, and I'd want to apologize to her for that. I'd sure be curious about what she was going to say, because if she remembered something I hadn't, I'd want to show up first with that information, rather than let them pound on her about it being a different story. And he told her to tell the truth. Oh, geesh, what a rotten apple, telling a sweet lady that it's OK to tell the truth, that she needn't feel obligated to lie about anything out of a sense of loyalty.
I really hungered for Roger Clemens to quote Joseph Welch, "At long last, sir, have you no shame?"
I'm not a Roger Clemens fan. I saw one minor league game about 15 years ago - Derek Jeter was playing for the Columbus Clippers - but I really haven't paid much attention to baseball much since the days of Bird Fidrych, Dennie McLane, and Rocky Colavito.
And the next thing, we'll hear Arlen Specter quizzing the NFL over videotapes.
This whole thing reminds me of Parkinson's Law, where the board of directors spends 5 minutes OKing a $30 billion factory, but argues for 3 hours over a $250 shed for the night watchman's bicycle.
However, the hearings did do some good. It showed the inner workings
of congress and showed that some of the people in congress are in fact idiots.
The commitee was split among party lines with most republicans being pro-Clemens. One
Republican went as far as saying that Roger Clemens is going to
heaven. WTF?
And many of the congressmen were more concerned about showing up for the
cameras then asking any questions. How do these people get elected?!
These are some of the same people who will be voting on the important issues.
And I'm a sports fan, so I'm not saying this as someone who doesn't follow this.
What I'm saying is that "important" is very hard to define.
Bottom line. People are interested in Brittany Spears and Barack Obama . . . and Roger Clemens.
It's very hard to determine what is IMPORTANT and what is not.
I find them all to be very interesting. Good enough for me.
http://www.jeffwartman.com/2008/02/roger-clemen...
The talking heads are on cable because, like their talk radio counterparts, it's the cheapest and most profitable content to manufacture.
At least when i was listening, NPR wasn't leading or obsessing about the Clemens story.
And the world has thousands of other problems, and they wasted all this on nothing.
Disgusting.