Sad State of Affairs, but Sports is Safe!

And with all of that, the Roger Clemens-Brian McNamee appearance before a congressional committee yesterday wasn't really about anything at all.

You could compare it to Joe McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, except that the direction of a country might well have turned there. You could compare it to Shakespeare, except that the Bard tends to leave his audiences pondering the most complex issues of the human condition. Or to the O.J. trial, except that at the core of that sideshow was the fact that two people died. ...

One of the blowhard congressmen, Dan Burton, actually got it right when he said: "This kind of a hearing, this kind of a circus really bothers me. If [Clemens] has done something wrong, he should be indicted, he should be prosecuted and he should be punished for it."

If it really mattered, he would be. It doesn't really matter. But, boy, what a show, what a distraction, until the next one comes along. (source)

And yet, we can't seem to do the same thing to the likes of Harriet Miers, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or any of the rest of the sorry lot.