"....If I Did It....."

There is no question that O.J. Simpson is not the brightest light in the night, nor the sharpest knife in the drawer (no pun intended). His myriad gaffes ranging from leaving his wife and children for a blond bimbo teenager, his wasting of his millions in supporting her and her extended family, his opening up of his home to assorted strangers, hangers- ons, and neer-do-wells like Kato Kaelin, his ill-advised Bronco chase after his wife's murder, and even after his narrowly escaping the gas chamber for her murder, his continuing to have a succession of more white bimbos in his life in his Floridian exile.

You would think that he could not possibly shoot himself in the foot any worst than he already has - until he wrote this book "..If I Did It...", a so-called fictional account of how he would have done the killings if he were guilty. This is when I thought - hey wait a minute! - this guy can't be this stupid! Why write something that most people will surely believe is his true confession rather than a mere fictional account?

Then it occurred to me - maybe OJ is not as stupid as he seems, but is really as sly as a fox!

Why do I say this? Because he had to know that the greedy Fred Goldman was seeking to grab every bit of income he could receive in order to satisfy the wrongful death judgment levied against him in California. So writing a book (and getting a sizeable advance that he probably has already spent or hidden) with a provocative title that had the likelihood of being a notorious best seller through clever marketing on the tv and talk-show circuits, and having the revenues grabbed by Goldman and the Browns to satisfy the judgment, would be an ideal and easy way to satisfy the judgment without any personal cost to himself - particularly if he really did it! And wouldn't you know it, from the reported pre-orders for the book, it now appears that it will be a runaway best seller when it is finally released!
(Of course, I definitely will not be contributing to the enrichment of the tacky and tasteless Goldmans and Browns on the backs of their murdered loved ones)
If this makes as much sense to you as it does to me, we might have to say that old OJ may have pulled another one out of his bag of tricks, and just freed himself from some heavy, unwanted financial pressures - maybe he gets the last laugh after all!