Say, Barkeep, how about another shot of Skull & Crossbones?

The sports world, especially as delivered by broadcast media, now provides an unlimited supply of buckets with which to poison the well, to further inflame this human-made epidemic.

This past week, as was the week before that and the one before that, was loaded with self-supplied insanity.

For example, ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe, ex-NFL star without broadcasting portfolio, took a leave following a $50 million lawsuit filed by a 20-year-old woman who claims he raped then threatened her. Sharpe, 56, claims he’s a strong family man yet acknowledged having had “consensual sex” with the plaintiff.