"I'm tired..."

I use "I'm tired" as the beginning of this story for two reasons: because I'm tired of something and because a famous person happened to utter those words quite a few times a couple of days ago.

First of all, I'm tired of everything dealing with Terri Schiavo. It is a terrible, sad, story. What is happening to her is terrible. I don't know whether or not the two parties fighting for her, her husband and her parents, are truly acting in her best interests or their own. She is the hot potato stuck in the middle. Now, she is also getting tossed between the Florida Legislature, Congress, both dubya and Jeb, and a multitude of courts and Judges. News flash for those urging to take action: the courts all made their decisions. Those "tyrannical" judges you talk about are the same ones who you constantly bitch at for being activist judges. Now when they don't act, you yell at them for that. Boy, do I love hypocrisy! This is a case about one woman in Florida and her husband. I'm sure it's disappointing that the judge's ruling did not go the way you would have liked, but the decision has been made... over, and over, and over again. Accept it.

Secondly, apparently Barry Bonds is tired also. At least he said it enough times in an interview Tuesday, 14 times by one count. He must be very frustrated with three kneww surgeries, but is there more to it? He talked about sitting out the season because of arthroscopic knee surgery, but come on, football players have similar procedures done during the season and still come back and play. I doubt Barry's knee would face the same abuse as football players'. On the other hand, there are two other 800-pound gorillas nearby with Barry: steroids and the home run record. I don't know Barry's true motives, but is it possible that he's doing this to let the steroid firestorm ride out? And what about the home run record... he's 11 away from tying Babe Ruth and 52 behind Hank Aaron. Maybe he doesn't want to have to deal with the inevitable abuse he'll receive for breaking that record amid the steroids allegations? Who knows. But Barry, you're not a sympathetic figure. You're blaming the media for your problems and trying to look sympathetic via... the media. Do you really think that will work? The media did not try to take you down. When you come across as defiant as you do, you do a pretty fine job of smearing your own good name.