Funny Story

So ESPN.com has members section where you can post your thoughts about stories. As anyone who has read my other posts knows, I think that Joe Paterno's criminality has been washed away by his death is disgusting. So I went onto the ESPN.com website and said this,

At best he was a doddering old man who allowed children to be abused because he was so befuddled with age he didn't know how to stop it.

At worst he hushed it up to prevent his recruiting from being hurt so he could continue to field a football team.

And for this comment...

I received a 24hour ban from ESPN.com.

Now really I don't care; it's their website they can do whatever they want with it. I just find it interesting that a news agency would ban people who speak out against the acceptable dialogue of the day. The story about "JoePa" went from being, "This guy should probably be in jail," to "This guy walked on water and once saved the Virgin Mary and a puppy from drowning," all by accident of death.

Well folks death changes nothing. Just like whatever Ray Lewis did 12 years ago is not washed away because those two guys aren't any less dead, so those kids that JoePa's lifelong friend raped aren't any less raped because this guy just happened to pull a timely kicking of the bucket.

So to the complainers about my post on ESPN.com I have this to say, "What if it was you?" Because you know what, lets forget the "What if it was your kid" bit because no one cares. We flip through hours of TV commercials watching children starve to death in Africa and Central America unfazed and unmoved. Hell, we had a whole movement of occupiers grab their iphones and ipads and blow by homeless people who needed help in order to bitch that their portfolio had lost value. So let's not pretend we actually care about the children and stop all the blathering as such.

We couldn't give one damn less about the children so save your handwringing.

So my question is what if it was you taking from Sandusky knowing JoePa knew about it? How would you feel about all the accolades being heaped on him now? Come on, tell the truth.

So to the offended remember,

some people are begging to be offended, dying to be offended, I am offended that they are offended, so of course I am going to offend them.

Joe Pa

I am up to here with eulogies for Joe Paterno. I never cease to be amazed by the fantastic power that death has to erradicate the criminal behavior of the dead. All weekend long Joe paterno has called classy, a man who shaped lives of men, a man who stood out among others as a paragon of vitrue fairplay and a will to to do things the right way.

Here's the truth.

At best...

Joe Paterno was a doddering old man who upon hearing that his lifelong friend was raping little boys in the shower chose to do nothing because he was so senile and befuddled that he didn't know what to do.

At worst...

Joe Paterno was a man who knowingly allowed his friend to rape little boys because he feared it would hurt his ability to recruit football players to help him win so he kept it quiet.

Either way, no matter what he was, he is none of the things he has been lauded to to be. And even though I know it is a wrong and terrible emotion, I am sorry he died before the stink of shame could fully settle and he could fade away into the nothing of obsolescence which is the least his crimes deserved.

And to the Penn State people holding candlelight vigils and somehow blaming the victims after the fact for his death...

it doesn't bear printing here.