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I see that Jose Canseco's latest opus implies that the venerable Alex Rodriguez used steroids. Ho hum. Just another example that Sr. Cantsayno just can't say no to accusing anyone for anything in order to sell books.

Meanwhile, the tenacious solons in Washington are once again all over the Roger Clemens issue. Viz.,

The partisan drama surrounding Roger Clemens erupted again Tuesday, when the Republican representative that signed the letter referring the baseball pitcher for a perjury investigation condemned Democrats for an accompanying summary that "reads like an advocate's brief or prosecutorial indictment of Roger Clemens."

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he had not concluded that Clemens lied when he denied under oath that he used steroids or human growth hormone.

"Did Roger Clemens lie to us?" Davis said in a statement. "Some of the evidence seems to say he did; other information suggests he told the truth. It's a far more complicated picture than some may want to believe."

It's too much to ask these morons to actually attend to something that, you know, matters. Case in point: The FISA legislation still languishes while Congress gets all hot and bothered about a 45-year-old has been.