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Hey, there's not a lot of sodomy in opera. Besides, it's all in a foreign language anyway.

 

No, but if given the choice between either going to an opera or being sodomized, your humble correspondent would have to think about it.

 

My favorite demurral:


He's an Ivy League quoter of Virgil who endows a scholarship in the study of Greek and Roman classics - but doesn't understand the word 'sodomy.'

 

There's very little sodomy in opera but most of them are surtitled nowadays so the language doesn't factor in.

 

I used to feel that way too. Then I watched an entire opera and look at me now.

 

Spanier speaks.

www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/08/graham-spanier-interview-on-sandusky-scandal.html

 

Gotta love this tidbit from the New Yorker: "[Spanier] joined the Penn State faculty in 1973, as a sociology professor specializing in research on family dysfunction, including child abuse."

 

So what's the consensus on Spanier? Is he telling the truth or lying his ass off? If there was a gigantic cover-up for years, as seems to be the case, it seems the guy at the top had to be running it from his desk. How could he not?

Would Spanier really have let himself be shoved aside by the football coach when he could have re-established his power base instead? That's the part I wonder about.

 

From reading the Freeh Report (for whatever that's worth), it seemed to me that Spanier was the one who came away from it looking the worst. Behind Sandusky, of course.

 

Probably just thought it was a class on graminoids in PSU's landscape architecture program all that time. Honest mistake.

 

Beside that, there aren't happy endings in opera.

 

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