Betting On American Hypocrisy

OUR FRIENDS (if we have any) around the world must be astounded and mortified by the extent of American hypocrisy. Damned near everybody in America is addicted to some sort of drug, whether its coffee, sugar, flat screen high definition television, electronic devices, text messaging, social media, alcohol, heroine, or what not. And yet, oh how we love to punish drug users, and sinners. Lock up the pot smokers! Lock up the pimps! One of the greatest players in the history of baseball, Pete Rose, by being denied membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame, serves as a fine example of American hypocrisy. Rose is excluded for gambling, another one of our favorite American drugs. Casinos are sprouting up all over the country, even as we speak, as our gambling addiction intensifies and hardens. Yet, Pete Pose must be punished. What rot. Throughout the long history of baseball in America, participants of all types, fans, players, team owners, have gambled, drunk, whored, smoked, done every sin under the sun. Rose's gambling is perhaps unwise, but its his right; it not illegal. Also, it has nothing to do with baseball. Unless you accept the insane idea that Rose bet against his own team, and pesronally tried to lose baseball games, which is physically impossible. For him to have done such a thing would be a violation of the fundamental laws of nature, worse than exceeding the speed of light. And my, my ,my, haven't we become all righteously indignant about steroids, after having ignored their use for decades, while they made money for baseball's wealthy owners, adding muscles to arms and legs, sending baseballs further and further into the bright blue American sky, for everyone's joy...