Opaque Lucidity

And Terrorists Still Abound

The FBI is investing whether or not baseball player Roger Clemens lied to Congress about taking steroids.

Why does this story exist? I mean, why was Congress investigating steroids in baseball in the first place? Is there some jurisdiction other than a tenuous anti-trust connection? Has Congress run out of things to do, other than spending too much of our great-grandchildren's money?

I really don't care about steroids in baseball. I think it's terrible that talented young men risk health problems in the name of a small increase in game performance, but there are also young men who risk health problems by drinking too much every weekend. THAT is a bigger problem, in my opinion. The difference, of course, is that no major network is covering Joe Sixpack and his buddies as they drink away their problems on a Friday night.

This is just one more example of how far out of hand our federal government has gotten. Almost every facet of your life is overseen by the feds in one way or another. Schools, work, gas stations, grocery stores...they all have to conform to laws that only exist on the federal level. The idea of local oversight of anything is becoming a joke.

Oh, one more thing. Did you ever have any doubt?