Thursday, November 10, 2011
Truly unprecedented
Penn State students riot against the firing of the coach and president.
Guarantee it's never happened before. Until now, every student riot in history has demanded the firing of the president or the coach.
I can understand the respect for Paterno. I worked at PSU for several years in the '80s and saw that his reputation for probity was real and hard-earned. Penn State was the only college in this whole unfortunate land where football players were expected to be better students than 'civilians'. Everywhere else, faculty were officially ordered to give football players automatic A's whether they showed up or not.
But that was 25 years ago, and it's clear that Paterno is no longer fully functional.
It's never smart to keep executives after they turn senile. Henry Ford was the perfect example. In his younger years he created America. It's that simple. If we'd only return to young Henry's principles, we could have America back again. But after he had a stroke he behaved stupidly and ruined his company. Nobody had the power to fire him, and the company didn't recover until after he died.
Same with Popes, Senators and federal "judges". All are allowed to stay in power after they're clearly senile or stroked out, and they ruin the church and the country. (Well, the "judges" are mostly wild-eyed genocidal psychopaths to begin with, so maybe they don't belong in the analogy.) ¶ 4:00 AM
Guarantee it's never happened before. Until now, every student riot in history has demanded the firing of the president or the coach.
I can understand the respect for Paterno. I worked at PSU for several years in the '80s and saw that his reputation for probity was real and hard-earned. Penn State was the only college in this whole unfortunate land where football players were expected to be better students than 'civilians'. Everywhere else, faculty were officially ordered to give football players automatic A's whether they showed up or not.
But that was 25 years ago, and it's clear that Paterno is no longer fully functional.
It's never smart to keep executives after they turn senile. Henry Ford was the perfect example. In his younger years he created America. It's that simple. If we'd only return to young Henry's principles, we could have America back again. But after he had a stroke he behaved stupidly and ruined his company. Nobody had the power to fire him, and the company didn't recover until after he died.
Same with Popes, Senators and federal "judges". All are allowed to stay in power after they're clearly senile or stroked out, and they ruin the church and the country. (Well, the "judges" are mostly wild-eyed genocidal psychopaths to begin with, so maybe they don't belong in the analogy.) ¶ 4:00 AM
