Congress Gets Baseball to Act on Steroids (AP).  Would someone explain to me why current tax dollars are spent by Congress trying to get baseball to toughen their act?  I could really give a crap whether Sammy Sosa's juicin' or not.  Frankly, I could really give a crap whether Sammy Sosa's using a corked bat or not, as long as it's a level playing field.  If it's easy to abuse steroids in baseball, that means everyone in baseball has the opportunity to abuse them, therefore the game is still more or less fair.  I mean if Congress wants to get tough on steroid abuse, push on the states to enact tougher legislation on steroid abuse penalties.  Send a few dozen players to jail in midseason and watch as steroid abuse actually becomes a performance dampener instead of a performance enhancer.   It's much harder to hit a home-run from behind bars (the ball doesn't fit through the cell walls too well).

I don't think the Baseball Commission's statutes on the matter are anywhere near adequate, but I think this concept of appealing to the Commission itself is just a fancy way of pretending to get things done.  At the end of the day little will have changed.  I think more social benefit would come from encouraging kids to try and become doctors, lawyers and scientists than convincing them that they don't need steroids to be a major league baseball star.  via [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
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I agree with maybe 10% of what he says, but that's what he's trying to accomplish, and he makes me laugh, so rancid kool aid has been added to the "Friends" list. Heavy on diatribe, and statistics, and light on bi-partisan thought, Yeehaw!

10:42:11 AM  #  

Punks for Capitalism? I don't feel so alone now. Also, good Clash reference at the end of the entry.  via [marginal revolution]

10:32:12 AM  #  

Couple Arrested After 'Passion' Debate (AP). AP - A couple who got into a dispute over a theological point after watching "The Passion of the Christ" were arrested after the argument turned violent.

I think this belongs in the "Missing the Point" file.  via [Yahoo! News - Oddly Enough]
10:20:54 AM  #  

Chinese doctor aims to beat Blaine's record (Reuters). Reuters - A Chinese herbalist schooled in Taoist fasting methods has sealed himself in a glass cabin, out to beat the record of 44 days without food set by U.S. magician David Blaine last year.

Wow, I wonder if he'll be as good at hiding food and water on his person and eating it without getting noticed?  Better yet, I wonder if he's going to credit it with his insane powers to control his chi?  Blaine's a magician and I can respect his stunt as an entertaining trick, but if this yahoo tries to pass off his abilities as anything mystical or otherworldly, we'll know he's a con-artist.  Not that I don't already have my opinions, of course.  via [Yahoo! News - Oddly Enough]
10:19:53 AM  #  

Museum to Be Closed Over Wax Hitler Figure (Reuters).
*begin sarcastic rant*
Yeah, I've found that denial of history in the name of sensitivity is the best way to avoid repeating historical mistakes and excesses, too.  While we're at it, let's just start wholesale deletion of all records of the Inquisitions, the European and American witch trials, Japanese detention camps in the U.S., and McCarthyism, among other things.  Then once we've forgotten it all, it'll never, ever happen again.  That seems like a viable solution.  Thanks, hyper-sensitive, short-sighted nimwits, you've made the world a better place for everyone!
*end sarcastic rant*
via [Yahoo! News - Oddly Enough]
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