The All-American Hogwash Machine threw itself into full swing this week.
Warm fuzzies abound. Redemption, or what serves as personal turnaround in our media-driven fantasies, fell upon us willing blossoms like a summer rain, engendering feelings of love and hope everywhere.
Yesterday’s villains have turned into this week’s heroes, and we have taken them to our hearts. Again.
Alex Rodriguez, steroids cheat and inveterate liar, banged his 24th homer of the year on his 40th birthday Monday, and hearts of Yankees fans everywhere soared. In a postgame interview, he credited his wasted 2014 “time off,” a pleasant euphemism for the full-year suspension Major League Baseball meted out for his involvement in the Biogenesis scandal, for this year’s resurgence from hip surgery.