Penn State Mess

[N8YX]

It's not disturbing - it's predictable.

Sports activities and figures are deified at the expense of everything and everyone else.

Nothing less that a radical overhaul of society is going to fix this.

[WX7P]

It's not disturbing - it's predictable.

Sports activities and figures are deified at the expense of everything and everyone else.

Nothing less that a radical overhaul of society is going to fix this.

I don't disagree, but you'd think the sports figures that babble on about "character" and developing character would actually show some.

Even with my well developed cynicism about college "amateurs", this story is completely off the scale for me. It's going to cost the University some serious dollars. Those clowns that protected Sandusky better have some deep pockets also.

[W3MIV]

Nothing less that a radical overhaul of society is going to fix this.

I think that is true. We have come too far along this road to make an easy journey back. As with so many other facets of our "modern" society, money has trumped every and all senses of morality. Modern mass communications media are the engine that drives too much of what passes for socially acceptable behavior today; the media moguls and the corporate execs who use them for profit will sit around shaking their heads in disgust, clucking and sighing about the wretched nature of this sordid episode, but all the while they will be plotting ways and means to get past the worst of the public exposure so that they can get back to business as swiftly as they can.

The system is more screwed up than the perp's head.