Hil - that's what the media are saying in general. That's the Penn State reputation. I haven't spoken to my relatives who are Penn State grads to get their reaction. (Most of them are not too football inclined.)

Article on the disappearance of the former district attorney. Very odd.

He's been a radio talk show host here for the last few years and before that had a unsuccessful run to be the Republican nominee for the Senate. He has an astonishingly simplistic view of the world and no idea how government works. He called the Obama health care plan "treason" repeatedly.

Our president is really good with kids.

There have been. There was one alum yesterday who burned his diploma, saying he didn't want to be associated with a university that protects child molesters, and there have been some students calling for Joe to resign.

Penn State's President, Graham Spanier, was also made aware of Sandusky's actions: [link] I agree with the author that Spanier as well as Paterno should lose their jobs over this.

Paterno has announced retirement, but I am hoping the victims/victims families sue Paterno, the president and the Board of Trustees.

Have any of the victims come forward? Some (most?) of them are adults now, right?

Not that I feel they're obligated to, at all, just wondering. It's better to follow the story here than elsewhere.

This is so interesting -- a flyer for the first birth control clinic in the US, in 1916 in Brooklyn. [link] The text is in English, Hebrew, and Italian.

That's Yiddish, not Hebrew.

Have any of the victims come forward? Some (most?) of them are adults now, right?

The mothers of two of them have talked to one of the Harrisburg newspapers.

That's Yiddish, not Hebrew.

Oh, that makes more sense. I meant to say I was basically guessing on both non-English languages.

In other (embarrassing) news, I'm having my ass handed to me in first Words with Friends game ever. I'll just be over cradling my humiliation to my chest.

You should play with me: I lose to all Buffistas.