Casey Jones

[Rep. Thomas M.] "Davis denied that lawmakers are merely 'grandstanding' on the issue." The issue in question being the use of steroids and Human Growth Hormone in baseball. Now, the professionalization of sports naturally led to a situation where a collection of superhuman genetic freaks perform feats of unimagineable speed and strength for our amusement. Better, I suppose, than a world of warring vigilante factions. Anyway, the fact that a man who is already a far outlier on the curve of human physical development wishes to shrink his balls and grow his boobs in order to swat a ball farther and with more frequency troubles me not in the least. The arena for old-fashioned sportsmanship and skill-through-hard-work-alone is called high school, and the concessionaire is cheaper too.

That Congress is involved . . . yoy. On the one hand, it really is just ridiculous grandstanding, and I don't want to make too much of it. On the other hand, though, it is a window in the average lawmaker's withered, statist soul. There really is no item or action or eventuality into which they won't peer, hoping to extend their purview. "Something must be done" are truly the four most terrifying words in the lexicon, at least when arranged in that order.