August 3, 2012

• going on about

  What we have here is a random collection of “what the heck is she going on about now?”  Welcome.  Please take a seat.

  It happened first thing this morning. I had enough time to pick up the college newspaper.  I should have immediately turned to the sudoku, but instead I read the first line in an article on the cover.  That line says:  “Jerry Sandusky is distraught over the NCAA penalties issued to Penn State’s football program”.  Just wait, there’s more.. “for the school’s handling of his child sexual abuse scandal”.  Still there’s more… “and maintains his innocence as he awaits sentencing.”  I had to read that sentence in pieces because truly it required commentary.  On the one hand, if Sandusky is distraught, I almost think the NCAA might have done the right thing.  On the other hand, am I really the only person on the planet who is thinking who in the hell cares how he feels about that.  What that freaking nutjob thinks or feels about anything is of no consequence to me.  Unless he’s going to come out finally and say he’s “sorry.”  Then there’s the whole use of “scandal”.  Um, you were proven guilty.  I think his part of the situation is no longer scandal.  And scandal doesn’t begin to cover what he did to Penn State. (Yes, the real victims are those kids and they will get nothing from Sandusky and apparently Penn State is handing out cash settlements, so yay, I guess.)

  However, I saw this gem on Facebook today.

  

  And seriously, I may throw up.  I’m not even sure why I think this is tripe or offensive or whatever it is that bugs me about it.  I just think it’s in very poor taste.  Truly I think a quiet season in Happy Valley would have been a better move.  Maybe it’s that this makes it seem like football is the most important thing at Penn State, which I thought we were trying to prove otherwise.  Besides, this kind of fancy, schmancy poster seems to indicated that our ticket prices aren’t going to go down any time soon.  And I was sorta hoping to go to my 2nd ever Penn State game. Guess not.  Considering that we seem to be assholes, I guess that’s ok too.

  Speaking of, the other headline on the front page of the college newspaper was “NCAA may alter rules”.  This appears to have nothing to do with the Penn State sanctions (which is I’m sure what we were supposed to think it had to do with.)  In this article is a quote by some high up dude in the NCAA explaining why the NCAA is going to get tougher on athletes’ behavior.  Maybe you won’t read this the way I did.  He said, “Coaches come to me and say, ‘I feel like a chump. I’m trying to do things the right way and I have peers who laugh at me because I don’t play the game and bend the rules they way they do.’ “  Seriously?  The NCAA is making the rules tougher so that the coaches who follow rules don’t look stupid in conversation with their peers who don’t follow rules?  Hello?  Enforce the existing rules.  Hire coaches who have integrity in the first place.  Make college sports be about sportsmanship instead of the perks.  THIS is what JoePa was known for in this town (whether or not it was true for his entire coaching career.  I do think it was truer 20-30 years ago.)  Isn’t there some point when we have to encourage common decency and honesty in the first place rather than punish the cheaters who get caught?

  And now I’m reading a book.  You know one of those written things with a front cover and a back cover and some interesting and entertaining words in between.  And it made me laugh.  So I shall share a little bit with you about Eeyore.  I love Eeyore.  He’s my kind of dude.  Anyhow. 

  “Eeyore’s that way, isn’t he?” said Piglet.

  “Not all the time,” I said.  “Occasionally he’s worse.”

   

  Also today I saw this gem.  I also adore Maxine.  She’s my kind of old lady.

  

  My meds today include a good dose of dont-give-a-rip, a tall glass of iced tea, and the aforementioned book. And probably a nap.

   

   

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