Rocket Rage

I was going to write about Roger Clemens' indictment for perjury, but I see my friend, baseball fanatic Matt Welch, beat me to it:

This marks the second time the federal government has charged a famously unlikable Hall of Fame-caliber baseball player not with any underlying crime [...] but for [...] lying under oath to people more powerful than they. Quite openly, and at great taxpayer expense, the government is trying to make examples out of showhorse athletes, preferably of the assholish variety.

I sometimes think it would be best if Congress never called celebrities before their committees.  Politicians often showboat, and hearings that get extra attention for irrelevant factors bring out the worst in them.