Sorry, but there's nothing more revolting than sanctimony in the service of social conformity.  I'm not in favor of steroids.  I never took them and I'm sure I saved myself a lot of grief, particularly when I see some of Vince Macmahon's former trained seals on TV, who no longer have the use of their legs, or are even dead.

But if you're going to indict Barry Bonds for lying to a grand jury four years ago about doing something that wasn't even illegal seven years ago, then I think the witch trials are going too far.

This situation of making people testify under oath about their private business, even when no laws have been broken, has its modern origins in the anticommunist witch hunts of the 1950's, where they went after artists for things they ostensibly did in the 1930's.  It was the same garbage:

"I didn't attend this meeting in 1935."

"Well, we say you did, and we have this witness, Joe Schmucko, who saw you there.  So we're going to indict you for lying about being a commie twenty years ago."

Same shit.  Only now nobody cares about commies, but everybody loves sports.  So in order to distract the public from the huge Republican blunders concerning Iraq, the economy, the dollar, the housing scandal, torture, Katrina, gas prices and all the other multifarious fuck-ups of the Bush administration they're trying to skin Barry Bonds alive in a Star Chamber proceeding (look it up).


If they want to ban steroids, fine.  Let them do it according to procedure, which is that you first pass a law and you then try to enforce it, not retroactively targeting unpopular public figures for something they did when it wasn't even illegal