Web Letters: Pawn in Their Game

Yes Dave. Baseball superstars juice up on illegal performance-enhancers while team owners pillage our community chests. Cooking show hosts cheat on Wall Street while quarterbacks kill dogs on a bet. And while we worry over the trivial, millions of innocent men women and children are being murdered in Africa as the world turns away its collective head.

Banishing sweet little--er--puffy Manny Ramirez for the terrible Draconian-like sentence of fifty kids' games just doesn’t seem right, does it?

As we drift from being a nation of laws to a nation of polls, why not take the ultimate poll? Let’s find consensus agreement on the single most morally bankrupt act a person or persons can commit and only make that action illegal. The result would instantly alleviate your personal concern for those poor picked on sports superstars. Me? I have a personal soft spot in my heart for those poor misunderstood child molesters. Perhaps our poll will spare them both.

Care to lay down a wager on what (or who) makes it to the top of our poll of shame? No. I guess there are too many fine choices, but pundits will probably show up on quite a few ballots.

Wally Hayman

Gladwyne, PA