three things i've wanted to rant on for a few days

1. The Barry Bonds trial is the single biggest waste of taxpayer dollars EVER known to mankind. I don't give a crap if he shot up every performance enhancer known to mankind. I don't care if he lied out of his ass about it. Explain this to me, KC Sports fan:

Where is the freaking outrage over Livestrong Park? What, you honestly believe Lance Armstrong somehow overcame cancer and won multiple Tour de France's in a row WITHOUT the aid of a performance enhancer? Really? Let me guess -- you voted for Obama in 2008. (More on him next).

It is absolutely outrageous, the public anger against Barry Bonds, yet apathy towards Lance Armstrong, towards Floyd Landis, towards Shawne Merriman (who actually has flunked multiple drug tests), towards Rashard Lewis (ditto), towards Marion Jones (who re-wrote the book on doping).

Why the hatred of Bonds for doing what 99.9999% of us would do -- use every edge available to us to gain said edge? Especially when the rules of the sport didn't prohibit steroid use! Furthermore, as established today, the steroid the feds accuse Bonds of using, was not classified as a steroid until February 2004. His grand jury testimony occurred in November 2003! How is this ANYTHING other than a witchhunt?!?! How is this anything other than an overzealous prosecutor seeking to justify a massive budget by sacrificing one of our generation's greatest athletes to further his own career?

Everyone should be outraged by the Barry Bonds trial. Just not for the reasons you would think from a casual distance.

2. If anyone reading this has any doubts that the Democrat Party destroyed itself by tossing aside Hillary in 2008, the last few days should shatter that illusion. Our only comforting solace as a nation is that the person in this administration who has a pair is apparently running things. I never thought anyone would top Jimmy Carter as "worst President of my lifetime", but Barry's done it in barely two years.

3. The best show you're not watching is "Detroit 187". Like most shows I love, it appears to be a one-and-doner sadly, like Flash Forward, Studio 60, Invasion, Commander in Chief, and the best of them all, Swingtown. But give it a try. Every episode is available at abc.com. It's the best 18 hours of cop drama since "NYPD Blue" signed off the air six years ago. You won't regret the investment of time and emotion into this show, it's that damned good.