Enough of these little distractions -- two wars, an economy in meltdown, Mexico going to heck in a handbasket -- Congress is finally ready to tackle the most-pressing issue of our time.
Your tax dollars at work
By Tim O'Brien
How we choose our college football national champion.
The U.S. Senate subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy, and consumer rights announced that it wants to take a look a look at the much-maligned Bowl Championship Series. The BCS may raise antitrust concerns, it says, because some conferences -- like the Big Ten, the Pac 10 and the SCC -- receive automatic bids while other conferences don't.
The senator spearheading the hearings is Utah Republican Orrin Hatch.
Hatch has a little skin in the game, as they say. His Utah Utes went undefeated last season, but were bypassed in favor of Oklahoma and Florida for a berth on the national title game.
And here I was worried about my 401(k).
In this same vein, I want to see Sen. Amy Klobuchar call hearings into Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson's obvious pass interference against the Vikings' Nate Wright in the 1975 NFC playoffs. I mean, since the Senate has the time and nothing better to do.
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