He's back!!

Well, he's back.

Like the proverbial bad penny that keeps turning up, the guy is all over my TV screen again.

Even almost a decade after the travesty of a trial that brought no satisfactory justice and left him a free man despite the preponderence of evidence against him, he just couldn't stay under his rock.

He's sat for interviews in which he showed no remorse whatsoever, instead portraying himself as a victim and railing against the "real" wrongdoers.

He's written a book about his fantasy version of real events and got back on the public radar with that.

Now he's back again. And unbelievably, there are still people who defend him, even those who believe he was innocent of the crimes he was accused of, which is what sticks in one's craw more than anything else.

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You know, it occurs to me that the above description of former president Bill Clinton could also be about OJ Simpson. He's been back in the news lately, too, I've noticed.

Come to think of it, the similarities between the two are myriad.

They both have that supreme, sociopathic arrogance that makes them believe they are above the law - perhaps even a pathological belief that they are actually innocent, so often have they insisted on it.

They are both guilty of crimes against women for which they have not been justly punished.

OJ has a girlfriend, proving he must still be attractive to at least some women, despite the fact that he brutally murdered his wife. Bill Clinton is still out having affairs and ordinary workaday women still assume the conduct of giggling Beatles groupies when the subject of him comes up (which is utterly unfathomable to me. Who finds this guy attractive?) despite the fact that he has been credibly accused of raping at least one woman and sexually harassing several others(that we know of.)

Clinton was president during the OJ ordeal, which seems terribly appropriate in retrospect.

Of course, as many similarities as there are between OJ and Clinton, there are some important differences.

I have not heard many people say that Simpson was a great football player who just happened to have some moral flaws, but he was still a good football player!! Nor have I heard people say that even though they didn't agree with everything he's done, "you just can't help liking the guy."

And despite the existence of kooks who believe OJ to be innocent, they are the fringe minority. Everybody knows the details in technicolor of what Simpson did, but so many people haven't glimpsed the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Clinton's crimes. So many haven't even heard of Juanita Broaddrick, for example. So many actually BELIEVE the colossal myth that the Clinton impeachment episode was only about sex, when it was nothing of the kind.

In fact, despite the lack of justice obtained through the system for both men, perhaps it's OJ who has come closer to getting what he deserved. After all, he is still by and large a pariah. There are restaurants that refuse to serve him. Even the liberal media doesn't give him any kind of free pass. And with these latest shenanigans, he has become even more pathetic, and will very likely go to prison at last.

Clinton, on the other hand, is still a rock star. He has never had to pay for the wicked things he has done in any significant way, not in damage to his public image and certainly not monetarily, the way Simpson has. In fact, it's believed by most that Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will actually be boosted by the involvement of the brazenly unrepentant perjurer and rapist she is married to.

There has been justice in the Simpson case, even if only in the court of public opinion. But not for Bill Clinton.

Honestly, which is the biggest travesty?