"To be fair and consistent, you have to read this as a posthumous indictment of Joe Paterno..."

This = "The charges filed last week accusing three former Penn State administrators of engaging in a 'conspiracy of silence' t...

"Former Penn State President Graham B. Spanier was charged Thursday with hushing up child molestation allegations against Jerry Sandusky..."

WaPo reports.

Quite the photo op.

Removing the statue of Joe Paterno. A good one . ADDED: "The 14 Most Unintentionally Terrifying Statues in the World." Just somet...

"An artist erased the halo over the late Joe Paterno on a mural in State College, Pennsylvania..."

"The artist Michael Pilato had put a halo over Paterno’s image after the coach’s death in January...." Pilato added a large blue r...

"The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."

They "never demonstrated, through actions or words, any concern for the safety and well-being of Sandusky's victims until after San...

"Report: Penn State leaders, including ex-coach Joe Paterno, concealed Jerry Sandusky's activities to avoid bad publicity."

Email from CNN Breaking News. Breaking news? It's some kind of weird mind game. You get breaking news and the news is that you didn'...

After his lawyer said he'd "probably die of a heart attack" if he were a acquitted...

... Jerry Sandusky is convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse.

"President Obama, who took office pledging to put science ahead of politics, averted a skirmish with conservatives in the nation’s culture wars..."

"... by endorsing his health secretary’s decision to block over-the-counter sales of an after-sex contraceptive pill to girls under age...

Sandusky gives the NYT a 4-hour interview.

Here. Excerpt: "They’ve taken everything that I ever did for any young person and twisted it to say that my motives were sexual or wha...

"The question is not whether but how will the student section at Camp Randall Stadium humiliate their Penn State foes?"

"I'm guessing they make a show of wearing shower caps and bath towels. Just a guess. I know that's gross and insensitive but so...

Penn State defense strategy: McQueary's credibility.

The Wall Street Journal reports: The lawyers point out that they believe Mr. Paterno's testimony matches that of their clients. "Al...

"Joe Paterno clashed repeatedly with the university's former chief disciplinarian over how harshly to punish players who got into trouble, internal emails suggest..."

"... shedding new light on the school's effort to balance its reputation as a magnet for scholar-athletes with the demands of runni...

"Pennsylvania cops say they have no records that support Mike McQueary’s claim that he called police..."

If McQueary's credibility is bad , that undercuts his value of his eyewitness testimony: McQueary’s testimony is a key in the grand jury...

Why did Jerry Sandusky do that interview with Bob Costas?

It starts off very badly. I hear a man who is not committed to confident lying or confident truth-telling. He sounds like he's accessing...

"Everybody needs people to care for them. Sometimes they don't want it."

"Sometimes they don't understand what you're trying to do, but they want to be disciplined. Kids are growing up awfully fast to...

"Judge Who Set Unsecured Bail For Jerry Sandusky Is A Second Mile Volunteer."

"District Judge Leslie Dutchcot... ordered that Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail." The prosecutors wanted $500,000 an...

Connecting Occupy Wall Street to the Penn State scandal.

Here 's a new Bloggingheads video I did with Glenn Loury, who's an economics professor at Brown. We talk about Rick Perry, Herman Ca...

Gov. Corbett suggests that Second Mile groomed children for Jerry Sandusky.

Chris Wallace, on Fox News Sunday, did an excellent job of drawing out Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who, bound by ethical restraints,...

"He gets drilled at the 22-yard line! What a stick!"

So says the ESPN announcer at the Penn State/Nebraska game — not noticing the accidental double entendre. Earlier they played this statement...

"The grand jury indictment had been filed under seal, but because of a computer glitch it had mistakenly been made public."

The grand jury report in the Penn State case was revealed by accident?! The quote in the post title appears at the end of an article in the ...