Here come the Olympics!

Featuring China's blatant disregard for the basic rights of man!

Just one more day until the '08 games begin.

Congress disappoints in Clemens steroid case, and the media follows along

Gasp! One of America's baseball stars committed perjury?!

A congressional committee asked the U.S. Justice Department to review whether pitcher Roger Clemens lied when he testified he never used steroids.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey today requesting a perjury investigation relating to Clemens's deposition and testimony for a Feb. 13 hearing on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.

So the Justice Department will investigate this, but not the lost CIA torture tapes, or the torture itself? It will go through the records on a sports star, but it won't investigate the shady dealings of the executive? Wow.

Even worse than the fact Justice is wasting it's time on the Clemens case is the fact this steroid drama was brought before Congress in the first place. The House Oversight Committee. Should be cleaning up the government, right? Doing its job tackling national issues?

Wrong.

The biggest political/sports story of past month had nothing to do with the government, and, in fact, shouldn't be on the front page.

I know it would be nice to clean up America's pasttime, which also happens to be the world's most steroid-infested sport, but I fail to see how this is the government's job and not that of the MLB. What right does Congress have to question Roger Clemens on his steroid use? Why waste its time?

And what about the media in all of this? They're having a field day! I have seen no article in the mainstream media questioning whether these hearings should be happening, whether Congress should be wasting its time, or whether this story is over-reported — which it is.

The hearings are being turned into a partisian show, with Republicans being sympathetic to Clemens and Democrats attacking him. The chair of the committee, Democrat Henry Waxman, regrets holding the hearings in the first place.

Congress should be spending its time more wisely, as it has a worse approval rating than even President Bush. In addition, the media should focus on real news — not mix sports with front-page politics — and MLB should clean up its act.

Super Bowl: not so super

I've never liked American football — at all, whatsoever. Usually I don't deem it a worthy enough topic to blog about but, for anyone intending to watch Super Bowl XLI today (in less than an hour) just for the commercials, who did not see it last year, do not expect to be dazzled by the most expensive advertising the world has ever seen. Last year's Super Bowl ads were lackluster; the year before was a bit better. I usually just skim the Super Bowl. Whether with friends or family, everyone has the television on Sunday evening so, yeah, I jump on the bandwagon — but only to analyze the commercials.

Anyway, there's a lot of news about this thing called global warming, so that is what I will be doing with my Sunday evening. That'll be one less viewer of "America's Game"; fine with me.

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