Broken Records

As I write the Waxman/Davis inquisition is blanketing TV. There are more malicious ways for Big Brother to be watching us, but none more stupid. Curt Schilling, unsurprisingly, is a total narc.

I'm starting to like Mark McGwire's way of repeatedly taking the fifth: "I'm not here to talk about the past, I'm here to talk about the positive side of this issue." So he juiced. So what. Why do we need to make a federal case out of this?

UPDATE: Some choleric-looking US Representative, I'm not quite sure who, was wise enough to point out that players who are unwilling to say categorically that they've never taken anything are creating a public perception that they are guilty. Therefore, he concluded, MLB players need only give concrete proof of their innocence to clear their names. It's that simple.

UPDATE: Fuck Jose Canseco and his book.

UPDATE: Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is saying something about child poverty. And also that this hearing isn't---repeat, isn't---futile gasbaggery.

UPDATE: Dennis Kucinich is angry that the committee isn't looking at the "win at all costs mentality which has infected not just sports, but business and politics" and much more besides, I'm sure. Kucinich: "Our steroids [i.e., politicians' steroids] are called PACs."

UPDATE: And now this. Kucinich just addressed Sammy Sosa in Spanish. No, no grandstanding here.