We have the first of this year's super helpful and relevant sports resolutions! Looking back through historical archives, this is a disgustingly common thing. For example, the winner of the Super Bowl gets an official time-wasting congratulations most years. Yesterday, this passed in the Senate:
Senate Resolution 13: A resolution congratulating the University of Florida football team for winning the 2008 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) national championship.
No, I'm not kidding you. This is often how congress decides to spend its time. Take a look, it's even in the congressional record. I hope the gators feel good about themselves.
Really though, the BCS is a terrible system. It injects all sorts of politics into football. So maybe the Senate was just trying to turn the tables and inject some football into politics. Maybe this is a good thing. I might enjoy watching 70-year-old senators tackle the hell out of each other for the prestigious prize of an amendment allocating funds to remodel their state's zoo. It might actually make C-span exciting.
Oh wait, Taiwan already has that.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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