It always strikes me as odd when Congress does one of these things like the baseball steroid thing, where they blah blah blah about how bad performance-enhancing drugs are, or when Bush talks about what a plague steroids are, etc. It just seems to me like finding a big problem, and grandstanding while going after the most pointless, petty incarnation of it.

Are drugs a problem? Yes. Are our nation’s problems with drugs going to be solved by going after these people? No. Hell, are BASEBALL’s problems going to be solved by this? Absolutely not. Yet, you get a bunch of Congress-people who can say that they were tough on drugs, blah blah blah.

I sometimes wonder how people can be so disengaged from our political process that they wouldn’t even bother to vote. I wonder why people have no faith in the system at all, then I see bullshit like this. Who fucking *cares* about this crap? If a bunch of people want to inject steroids into their butt so they can bulk up, I could care less. What I care about is that we have giant musclebound idiots playing a kids’ game, and getting paid millions of dollars to do so while teachers have to buy books for their classes, because the state can’t fund them anymore.

Then, there’s the media. I wonder if any of them remember 9/11, and how serious the media was taken then. Now? Michael Jackson all the time. Robert Blake. Scott Peterson. No one gives a fuck about Al Qaeda, bin Laden, Iraq, the war, the Middle East peace process, domestic economic woes, etc. Hell, even Bush’s Social Security bullshit is a smokescreen for what our real problems are, and a means to address a public, simple-minded non-fix to a real problem that his tax cuts have created.

Oh, and fuck you, Alan Greenspan, you miserable partisan asshole.