By: Incontinentia Buttocks
This actually cuts both ways. I think covering up child rape should far outweigh the things Paterno did for Penn State in our moral assessment of the man. But I’m also surprised at those who seem to...
View ArticleBy: Incontinentia Buttocks
Conservative, perhaps, but not arbitrary. We know that, starting in 1998, Paterno knew that Sandusky might be a child molester. We simply don’t know whether he had any reason to believe he was before...
View ArticleBy: AuRevoirGopher
I’ve assumed for awhile that Sandusky was “retired” in 1999 because JoePa and Penn were spooked by his brush with the law in 1998. Meaning they knew. Now Gladwell, using the biographer as a source,...
View ArticleBy: Aaron B.
Yeah, and “having frank conversations with your children and making them aware of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors is important.”
View ArticleBy: Scott Lemieux
Look, if not for that time in Hamburg, the Beatles wouldn’t have become the greatest live band of their era, and Ringo Starr never could have become a first-rate songwriter.
View ArticleBy: Scott Lemieux
Posnanski is actually pretty convincing when he argues that 1)Paterno never liked Sandusky, and 2)that his firing wasn’t directly related to the 1998 investigation.
View ArticleBy: Scott Lemieux
Right. I’m not going to be shocked if evidence emerges that PSU should have known before 1998, but 1)as of now there’s no evidence, and 2)it’s entirely possible that they had no way of knowing. To...
View ArticleBy: cpinva
apologists, being fact resistant, will always be apologists, it’s their nature. while prior to 1998, there’s no reason (at least that we’re aware of) that paterno should have had any reason to suspect...
View ArticleBy: mch
How much of a role in this mix was played by the RC hierarchy’s standard response to child molestation and rape? Let’s grant for argument’s sake (I tend to believe it actually to be true) that Joe P...
View ArticleBy: emjayay
Why do certain people think it’s cool or something to write without bothering to capitalize (the first letter of) the first word in the sentence? Why not write backwards or upside down or in a language...
View ArticleBy: Aaron
Gladwell’s article wasn’t about child molesters and opportunistic crime. He was writing about predatory pedophiles who manipulate their way into positions of trust and carefully select and groom...
View ArticleBy: Aaron B.
Yeah, and “having frank conversations with your children and making them aware of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors is important.”
View ArticleBy: Scott Lemieux
Look, if not for that time in Hamburg, the Beatles wouldn’t have become the greatest live band of their era, and Ringo Starr never could have become a first-rate songwriter.
View ArticleBy: Scott Lemieux
Posnanski is actually pretty convincing when he argues that 1)Paterno never liked Sandusky, and 2)that his firing wasn’t directly related to the 1998 investigation.
View ArticleBy: Scott Lemieux
Right. I’m not going to be shocked if evidence emerges that PSU should have known before 1998, but 1)as of now there’s no evidence, and 2)it’s entirely possible that they had no way of knowing. To...
View ArticleBy: cpinva
apologists, being fact resistant, will always be apologists, it’s their nature. while prior to 1998, there’s no reason (at least that we’re aware of) that paterno should have had any reason to suspect...
View ArticleBy: mch
How much of a role in this mix was played by the RC hierarchy’s standard response to child molestation and rape? Let’s grant for argument’s sake (I tend to believe it actually to be true) that Joe P...
View ArticleBy: emjayay
Why do certain people think it’s cool or something to write without bothering to capitalize (the first letter of) the first word in the sentence? Why not write backwards or upside down or in a language...
View ArticleBy: Aaron
Gladwell’s article wasn’t about child molesters and opportunistic crime. He was writing about predatory pedophiles who manipulate their way into positions of trust and carefully select and groom...
View Article
