Good (news) Friday: O.J. Simpson has finally confessed!

As I did my nightly channel surfing through Cable-News stations last night, there was no escaping the fulminations of moral outrage over a book, ghostwritten by OJ’s conscience, in which he gives a stab by stab account of how he (would have) killed his ex-wife and her friend (if he did it) in the summer of 1994.

But I have no moral compulsion to join the chorus of people damning O.J. to a living hell. Especially since the most outraged amongst them betray their righteous indignation by still watching O.J. (and hanging on his every word) the way rubberneckers gaze at roadside accidents. For the record, however, I feel obliged to declare that I have no doubt that O.J. committed those murders. And, apropos this, no matter its crass commercial purpose (with its must-see TV companion interview), this book will constitute as much of a confession as a psychopathic and narcissistic megalomaniac like O.J. would ever make.

Meanwhile, it behooves all of those expressing incredulity that he would intentionally inflict emotional distress upon his two children in this manner to appreciate that if O.J. had no paternal scruples about the trauma his killing their mother would inflict when they were mere adolescents, then he’s probably inured to any such concerns in this respect today. Indeed, far more troubling (and perhaps newsworthy) is how his publisher rationalizes her unconscionable decision to publish this book:

I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives.

[Judith Regan, Publisher of Regan books and OJ’s Mother Confesser offering her patently specious and self-indulgent rationalization for profiting off OJ’s murderous notoriety]

Enough said!

NOTE: Incidentally, if, like one of my friends, you’re wondering why OJ doesn’t sue some of the high-profile people calling him a murderer for defamation, it’s because he knows the truth gives them an absolute defense. Moreover, since a civil court has already established as truth that he is a murderer (by holding him responsible to the tune of $33 million for killing his wife and her friend), he would probably be charged with abuse of process for even filing a claim for defamation under these circumstances.

ENDNOTE: For a variety of reasons, many of my fellow Caribbean natives are besieged with fear that a series of recently enacted and pending US legislation portend doom for our tourist economy. In fact, their fears have become so irrational that one government minister has just proposed that we engage in whaling to forestall this cursed fate.

But click here to see why I think rubbish is the sum of all their fears.

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