I found this great commentary (courtesy of Will Carroll's Juice Blog) written by Jon Stewart's favorite dick aside from his own - Carlson Tucker!
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Just because we're in the middle of a war on terror doesn't mean Congress doesn't have time for a sideshow. But that's exactly what we got on Thursday, when outraged congressmen lectured Mark McGwuire, Jose Canseco and other baseball greats about the evils of steroids. And the networks took it live.
The justification for this orgy of moral preening? You guessed it: the children. We've got to protect the children from steroids. Because steroids are a dangerous epidemic among our youth.
But are they? No one in the inner city is dying from steroids. Nobody's committing crimes to buy them. They aren't addictive. Steroid users don't even get high; they get acne.
Come to think of it, it's not clear what, exactly, is immoral about taking steroids. Critics claim steroid use is wrong because its unnatural. That's true. But then so is taking vitamin supplements. So is dieting and working out. And so, for that matter, is every drug and remedy designed to make the body better than it naturally is. Should they all be illegal?
And here's an even better question for the congressional anti-steroid caucus: Since when did the constitution give you the power to harass baseball players about their personal lives?
Instead how's this for a plan: you fix entitlements, end airport delays and capture Osama bin Laden. Then, when you're done, feel free to come back and investigate Mark McGwuire's swing.
http://www.pbs.org/tuckercarlson/un...iltered_60.html