About Roger Clemens

I'll have to admit, I stopped actively watching baseball after high school, and swore off paying attention after all of the strikes. But I want to rant about Roger Clemens and congress, for just a minute.

Roger Clemens is set to be indicted by the feds on several counts of lying to Congress in relation to a steroid scandal investigation. If he took steroids, oh well ..... keep him out of the Hall of Fame. If he didn't, let him in (assuming he gets the votes).

But lying to Congress? Pot, meet kettle.

First of all, by virtue of the fact that there is nothing in the Constitution empowering Congress with regulating the use of steroids, I consider any attempt by Congress to regulate or criminalize steroid use as illegitimate. Basically, it's none of the government's fucking business.

But it is absolutely unfathomable to me that members of congress can, with a straight face, allege that Roger Clemens should go to prison for lying to them.

Like congress doesn't routinely lie to the American public? Well, of course they do; but they've written their own get-out-of-jail free cards with regard to what they say on the floor of the house.

Did Roger Clemens lie to Congress?

Who gives a fuck. Because nobody cares.

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