Andy, sick Sandusky, will never get it

Good old Andy Rooney died this weekend, scarcely a month after he finally left 60 minutes at the ripe old age of 92.  I always enjoyed when I got to catch his commentary, even if sometimes I thought it was silly.  I always appreciate someone that is good at expressing their opinions in an interesting manner. RIP Andy, the show will never be the same without you.

I, as many others were horrified to read the story of alleged  sexual minor abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky, the long time defensive coach for Penn State football.  His image walking the sidelines along Joe Pa is a very familiar one with all PSU fans. The acts he are accused of are downright awful.  It gets even worse as you read about members of the administration that had some knowledge of what was going on yet ignored/covered it up in some way.

It’s a very dark cloud that is sure to tarnish the squeaky clean PSU football reputation.  I am sure the more details that come out the bigger the mushroom cloud of implication will become.  Even though Joe is not officially included in the investigation it seems pretty hard to believe he had no knowledge of it.

Unfortunately now is the season when happy hunters start posting pictures of their kills.  For me, a person that would rather trap and release a spider outside instead of squashing it, I have a very hard time understanding the mindset.  Proudly holding the horns of the innocent animal you just blew away just seems so wrong to me on so many levels.

Of course like anything else, it is the end result of what you are raised with.  If you are raised going to church with the family every weekend there is a good chance as an adult you will have a belief in God and heaven.

If you were raised by a family of fat asses that stuffed their face incessantly, didn’t exercise and watched 40 hours of tv a week you are very likely to follow a similar path and not think there is anything wrong with that.

Hunting I guess is just the same scenario.  If ever since you had the ability to hold a rifle you were taught it is fun sport to kill innocent animals, it is logical that would carry through into adulthood.

I am sure most of the the hunters have their slain animals butchered so their death is not solely to satisfy man’s primal urge to kill.  I guess there is some small redeeming quality in that although I am quite content to not have that primal urge satiated.

Regardless, no matter how much logic I try to apply to the situation, it doesn’t prevent me from feeling somewhat sickened when these images wind up in front of me.