Frankly, never a subject of enduring interest for me. But I was disgusted to see two more, ostensibly left-leaning celebrities—LeBron James and Larry David—pushing cryptocurrencies. I'd call them hypocrites, but we now seem to be in the Post-Hypocritical Age in America.
And I don't know that the candy ads were all that great for the kiddies, either. Or the cola ads.
Why, the Babe even did ads for whiskey and underwear...decades after he was dead! That's how great he was!
Even clean-cut Lou Gehrig did an ad for Camels. And for his wife's song-writing, which looks equally lethal.
But hey, all that stuff was considered good, clean fun back in the day. Scientists had not yet determined just how deadly the effects of sheet music and home piano sing-alongs could be.
But what neither the Babe nor Columbia Lou did was stand around and make newsreels where they said:
"Hey, Keed, c'mon down and put all your hard-earned wages into Wall Street stocks you know nothing about!
"Don't have a lotta cash? Don't worry! Why d'ya think those smart guys down there invented margin? Just take the $1.86 you saved this week from your 60 hours making steel, head to the Street, and fork it over to the first bucketshop operator you see!
"What could possibly go wrong? Trust me!"