AS THE TWIG IS BENT, AS THE SAYING GOES

...'so grows the tree'.





The scandal is soul-breaking...

but the DAMNED RESPONSE FROM THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ruptures the spirit in a whole new way.

Their histrionic wailing, their self-pitying anger- NOT because of what the victims suffered, no -it's entirely about themselves and their reputations and their 'do-nuthin' Jo Pa --and it's enough to throw me right over the edge.

Rioting, mooning around in front of Paterno's house, in tears, in shock.... and all for themselves and how this unsavory CHILD MOLESTATION has put a crimp in the happy style of FOOTBALL town.



I think it's fitting that we say, now and forever on their behalf

---yes

WE ARE PENN STATE!


And in many ways, it's the whole bloody country with its skewed values and self-obsessing, juvenile behavior.

You wanna know their biggest fear... the university's, that is?

From what I've read, it's already happening. Their bond rating has taken a hit, so money will be more expensive for the university to borrow.

Companies who sponsored their events in the past want to distance themselves, so they've begun to pull away. Entities who make LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS to the university will be very unlikely to do so in the future, so it all comes down to, yep-- finances drying up.

Their coffers will take the biggest hit from this (to say nothing of the law suits ahead)- but few are paying any attention whatsoever to the IMPACT Mr. Sandusky has had on the boys whose childhoods he destroyed: administration is worrying about future funding and the student body is mourning the jettisoning of their old coach and the loss of their football edge.


It boggles the mind.


The sheer insensitivity of those marauding, furious BRATS turning over cars and filling the streets with their tantrums when they learned Paterno was fired was all I needed in order to gauge just what it is those young people have been learning from their association with Penn State, and it isn't trigonometry or philosophy- it's indulgent SELF-INTEREST, and it's EXTREME. As one Penn State student was quoted, "I love the school more than I hate what happened"... that says it all. Why doesn't she see that "what happened" --and the university itself-- are one and the same thing; that the sanctification of the game allowed the kind of cover-up that occurred?



The sad thing is.... I wouldn't have expected any other reaction. The students of football-centered colleges are usually creatures fixated in a selfish adolescence where winning is everything; as the saying goes, "pride goeth before the fall" -and fall they did. Rock bottom to these eyes.

I wish they'd get it through their thick skulls that THEY are not the victims.... eight boys were.

And those 10,000 students taking to the streets in anger? They raped them again... and the painting up there? It's by Francis Bacon.

(Like Sandusky, he was another sick f*ck for whom violence via male-on-male rape was particulary pleasing stuff.)


I don't know if he liked football or not.... and I don't think it's important.