Barry Bonds is baseball's Bernie Madoff

[Steroid News]

The government's priorities are thrown into stark relief when one contrasts this with what Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi has aptly described as the "revolving door" of ineffectual investigators and lawyers charged with policing and prosecuting Wall Street. The message: use steroids and lie about it and you will feel the full force of the law; perpetrate a full-scale economic crisis and you get to plug right along under the status quo.


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