tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post966947429668567323..comments2023-08-18T04:37:47.001-04:00Comments on Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie: We are....Kelly Sedingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-39353645589117456952011-11-18T19:39:34.851-05:002011-11-18T19:39:34.851-05:00Well, fine, my view disgusts you. I stand by it, t...Well, fine, my view disgusts you. I stand by it, though...and my belief that of our two respective views on this matter, mine would be less likely to be different if this exact state of affairs exists not at PSU but at, say, UTEP.Kelly Sedingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-6256814194409134332011-11-18T12:39:46.070-05:002011-11-18T12:39:46.070-05:00Perfectly entitled to your opinion, just as I am e...Perfectly entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to my view that your opinion disgusts me. Agree to disagree!<br /><br />http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/page/kreidler-111117/echoes-duke-lacrosse-rush-judgment-penn-state-scandalMatthew Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15435587341154637006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-78518600767342831942011-11-16T22:39:49.858-05:002011-11-16T22:39:49.858-05:00interjecting as a faculty/staff member of said Mar...interjecting as a faculty/staff member of said Marshall.<br /><br />What the mighty hell??Bergiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03689312067317312485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-90790505236832768102011-11-16T18:24:20.647-05:002011-11-16T18:24:20.647-05:00If that is true, then...not much is different, I&#...If that is true, then...not much is different, I'm afraid. And we're talking about a pretty big 'if' there, to begin with: the e-mail was just written last week, and it's full of weasel words. The text of the e-mail reads like a document that was specifically written to serve as a red-herring in legal proceedings. "I didn't stop the abuse myself, but I made sure it was stopped"? How? By whom? "I talked to police <i>and the person in charge of the police</i>"? Which police force? The 'real' police, or PSU police? If the latter, then goodie, there's even <i>more</i> people involved in the cover-up. And the odd way in which McQueary insists that this e-mail is "off the record", and yet, magically, it's out there in the news. This stuff is right out of an episode of any legal drama that's ever been written.<br /><br />And even if it <i>is</i> true, so what? There was still a cover-up and still years' worth of questions to be answered and it's still clear that an awful lot of bad behavior was covered up by people in position to do so. If the e-mail <i>is</i> true, I don't see anything in it that is inherently exonerative of Joe Paterno or anyone else. And as I write this, the state police in State College have already stated that he didn't talk to <i>them</i>. Hmmmmm.<br /><br />So as yet, I see no reason to consider any of the moral hand-wringing irresponsible. But then, I'm not emotionally invested in the legacy of some old football coach with whom everybody seems to think they're on a first-name basis.Kelly Sedingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-64078650092647822582011-11-16T11:29:22.473-05:002011-11-16T11:29:22.473-05:00If this is true, then all the morally irresponsibl...If this is true, then all the morally irresponsible hand-wringing is going to be very embarrassing:<br /><br />http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7238963/penn-state-nittany-lions-scandal-mike-mcqueary-stopped-alleged-assault-source-saysMatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002882836281762310noreply@blogger.com