Fantasy Sports? Try Fantasy Congress

Football, hoops and baseball may involve feats of stunninng physical achievement, but Congress defies reality itself.
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align="right">Now, I can't speak for the particular experience of href="http://www.fantasycongress.com/fc" target="blank">Fantasy
Congress, but fantasy sports was always a blast when I was in the
industry, so to speak. It kept me and my shit-talking friends knit
tight together during the white-collar jackoffery of the dotcom boom.

But sports are lame href="http://www.morphizm.com/blog/2006/11/paid-to-suck.html">compared
to politics, and given the hilarious characters we've had
populating the Congress during Bush's reign of astounding
incompetence, the star power is there. Plus, Terrell Owens and Kobe
Bryant don't have anything on riot acts like href="http://www.morphizm.com/observations/levine/levine_foley.html">Mark
Foley, target="blank">Tom DeLay, Duke Cunninngham and the rest. And
that's not even getting into the lame tangle of href="http://www.morphizm.com/observations/arianna/huff_defeat.html"
target="blank">Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

And then there's learning how exactly your government and money works,
all while pounding fools and taking names. Football, hoops and
baseball may involve feats of stunninng physical achievement, but href="http://www.wiretapmag.org/rights/42782">Congress defies
reality itself. Knowledge is power, and power is knowledge.
Ignorance is bliss? As the underrated film href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/artschoolconfidential"
target="blank">Art School Confidential put it, "That's so
September 10th."

If you're interested in joining a league, href="http://www.fantasycongress.com/fc/public/RegisterUser.jsp"
target="blank">sign up here. And bring your smartass teenagers
into the game too. They might learn something worth learning. Which is
what they haven't been learning lately, if you catch my circular
drift.

The irony? This may someday replace fantasy sports. The stakes and
payoffs are so much higher. It's not even funny.

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