Should this be allowed to happen?

[Nancy Adams]

K. receives a subpoena from Congress. He travels to the hearing as
required. He is asked "Have you ever done anything embarassing?".
What is K. to do? If he says no, he will he convicted of perjury; if
he refused to answer he will be convicted of comtempt. If he pleads
the fifth this itself will be embarrasing and technically it will be
lying since there is no chance he will incriminate himself. If he
says yes, then he will be ask to describe the embarassing action. If
he refuses then he will be convicted of comtempt, and so on.

This is pretty much what happened to Mark Mcgwire.

[Anton Berlin]

Nancy - if you're to be a trusted member of RBR you need to divulge
all of your embarrassing sexual practices. You'll be accepted much
quicker if you include photos and videos in your confession.

Pope Anton

[Kurgan Gringioni]

"Nancy Adams" <nhad...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6a9d6aeb-e817-430d...@d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
: K. receives a subpoena from Congress. He travels to the hearing as

Dumbass -

Testifying before Congress is the Kiss of Death.

thanks,

Kurgan. presented by Gringioni.

[Fredmaster of Brainerd]

Dumbass,

I already used the Kafka joke a few weeks ago.

You don't have a constitutional right to freedom
from embarrassment. If you become the target of
a prosecutor or a Congressional probe, there are
all kinds of things they can do to make your life
miserable. If you only recently noticed this, it's
because you don't read newspapers and/or put
professional athletes on some kind of pedestal.
However, you have to do something to be brought
to their attention, and they can only ask questions
that are relevant to the investigation. So if you
want to avoid being embarrassed, don't get investigated.

But you know, embarrassment isn't so bad. McGwire
isn't poor; we all survived embarrassment as
teenagers; and you showed that you can't google
"bicycle racing crit" yet still return to rbr.

McGwire got embarrassed for a variety of reasons,
some of which were the credulity of the audience
and the sports media when he was breaking all
the records. Remember that during his rise to
demigodhood he admitted using androstenedione,
but everyone made excuses for that in a "Oh, I'm
sure a nice boy like him would never touch the
rocket fuel" kind of way. So guess what, he did, but
because of the saintly act now he's embarrassed.

The baseball guys, IMO, pissed in their own river
by taking the rocket fuel too far, like Gewiss-Ballan
or the 60-percenters or Festina in bicycle racing.
They got so huge that it started to distort the game.
That's not why the investigation started, of course -
fans liked the distorted game. But once the revelations
started coming out and you saw how retired stars
were half the size of their playing days it was hard
to pretend they'd just been trying out a taste of hot
sauce here and there.