but in America, home of the free, land of the atom bomb and Victoria's Secret, our favorite sport, our great American pastime, bigger than the goddamn Super Bowl and internet porn is to judge other people.

Why?

Well first because we can, ha! It's free and you don't have to leave the fucking house to do it! If they can get us all to sit at home and pass judgment on other people and blame "them" for all our problems...well...hooray for their team, as Kurt would have said. You can sit in front of your television and medicate yourself with the legal substance of your choosing and point fingers all day long for why the world is going to hell in a handbasket...and for some people doing exactly this makes them feel justified!

Why do we like to judge so much? Could it be that we live in a quasi Judeo-Christian country where a good percentage of the folks believe that their God's chief function is to judge and punish sinners and wrong doers? Everybody wants to be like or close to their God, right? Or at least avoid having to go for a swim in the lake of fire...right? So judge away!

Calling some poor schmuck a role model is a license to tear that dumb bastard apart. It's setting them up to be destroyed...so fuck it! If you're gonna be put in that position you may as well make the most of it and roll a big fat one and host an orgy that lasts a month of Sundays!

I don't even know who this Phelps guy is...in fact I thought you were talking about that crazed son of a bitch Fred but this guy is what...some kind of athlete? Hey, at least Fred is upfront about being a complete fucking nutjob and seems proud of it.

What says more about us, that we could idolize a guy that can play a sport, nail that same guy to a cross because he smokes a joint, or that we can be distracted by such asinine nonsense...of course I don't expect an answer to that as it's really not a question.