World, it's time to MOVE ON!

As far as the "Oscar Pisstorius" controversy, like I've said repeatedly, I don't care all that much. Professional sports, especially in America, has been elevated to the status of a quasi-religion, a patent absurdity when one considers that baseball, for example, is a child's game. Obviously, baseball is now played by expert, "gazzillionaire" men who chase little balls around the park like maniacs..., and treat the whole past-time as if it were the most important endeavor imaginable. Well, of course it it, for them. Major league sports is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, after all. And a way out of the ghetto or the Dominican Republic for a few fortunates who grew up desperately poor. But as much as I used to enjoy playing the game - and it rather sucks on TV - it is intrinsically trivial. As far as the Pisstorius case, I realized, as soon as the once-reputable BBC began leading its news broadcasts with this Entertainment Tonight-grade item, that this diversionary piece of psychological "jock itch" is being utilized in order to more or less marginalize real news, if not to squelch it altogether. With the Lance Armstrong case, it was "Time to move on, America!" Now it's: "Time to move on, World!"