February 14, 2008
Mind Your Own Business
Although some may have mistaken all of us here at Dakota for sports enthusiasts, you would not be correct. In fact we think (nonparticipatory) sports are an intentional opiate, served up endlessly to the unsuspecting public by those who would like us not to mind so much that we live in a near police state. Perhaps that's a bit harsh, but you just wait and see.
WHY, when lives and deaths issues face the our country, and our Constitution and the economy are in shreds, is the damn congress holding baseball hearings, for heavens sakes. And WHY is the Department of Justice wasting precious time on this trivial matter too. There are war and plain criminals to prosecute and high treason to investigate. The DOJ is in complete disarray and held in unprecidented low regard. Why are they even interested in what Roger Clements did to some stupid statistics and his own poor body. Drop it.
I just loved this quote from Glenn Greenwald who was sick with the flu and watched the hearings, in addition to writing an excellent history of FISA which you are also welcome to read.
UPDATE: One of the tortures I endured yesterday was watching the House hearing involving Roger Clemens and the trainer who claims to have injected him with steroids. The press could not have been any more riveted and was fully knowledgable of every relevant detail. Almost every House Committee member came to the hearing thoroughly prepared, grilled the witnesses with the expertise of an experienced litigator, and thundered about the grave seriousness -- and consequences -- of lying to Congress.The drama was high, the gravity palpable, and the interest level intense. Ponder how much better our country would be if even a fraction of all of that were conjured up for acts of chronic lawbreaking and serial lying by our highest government officials, rather than our baseball stars.
Shove THAT through the black window of your SUV.
Photo note: I just happened to shoot this doodad pasted on the side of a black SUV a coupla days ago - I must be in a little flow, even though I am possessed of great anger lately, which keeps erupting
Posted by Dakota at February 14, 2008 08:01 PM