For Your Weekend Perusal

Over the past couple of years there have been a series of Congressionl/US Senate hearings concerning the use of steroids in Major League Baseball. Part of the results of which were one or more players being charged with perjury for "lying under oath!"

About a month ago I caught a clip of a high ranking US Senator proclaiming with the upmost zeal his disgust of rumors of drug use in the National Football League. He went on to say he was going to schedule hearings on the matter within the next fews months and get to the bottom of this issue.

Then I got home from our City Council Meeting last evening to find CNN broadcasting our very own Baron Hill chairing committee hearings on the care & feeding of animals in the horse racing industry.

Is it just me or does this make about as much sense as a heart surgeon leaving the operating room halfway through the procedure to discuss which variety of tulips to plant in his grandmothers flower bed two years hence.

As an unemployed individual paying $4+ for gasoline and a father & uncle of two young men who are serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan I would much prefer my tax dollars and our representativs education, expertise, and experience attending to the more pertinent issues affecting our futures.

The professional athletes are adults after all and even as kids when we found one of our playmates cheating we were told to settle in amoung ourselves.

As for the race horses, where is PETA when you need 'um?