Pro-active men, willing to help out
Bookworm on Nov 20 2011 | Filed under: Men
Tweet I promised not to blog about Mike McQueary any more, and I won’t. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t point you to someone else’s post on the subject. I’m pointing….
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Personal morality and responsibility
Bookworm on Nov 18 2011 | Filed under: Parenting, personal responsibility
Tweet 11B40 asked a good question, which is why I’m so focused on McQueary, when it was Sandusky who committed the crime. It’s because I have no fellow feeling with Sandusky who, if the allegations are true, is a perverted monster. I therefore don’t need to analyze my behavior or parenting decisions with regard to [...]
The moral space in between
Bookworm on Nov 17 2011 | Filed under: Morality, Newt Gingrich
Tweet America’s First Sergeant put up a post that perfectly addresses my last two attempts to figure out Mike McQueary’s inaction. The first post I wrote looked at McQueary’s alleged youth, which I contrasted with the even youthier youth of a few Medal of Honor recipients who didn’t hesitate to act. The second (with lots [...]
Mike McQueary — poster child for moral relativism?
Bookworm on Nov 17 2011 | Filed under: Morality, Multiculturalism
Tweet I had in my car two fourteen year olds and one thirteen year old. All were familiar with the Sandusky case, so I wasn’t exposing them to sordid information they didn’t already know. None of them, however, knew about Mike McQueary’s involvement, or lack thereof. I gave them a simple multiple choice question: You [...]
McQueary’s age is no excuse for his lukewarm, delayed action
Bookworm on Nov 16 2011 | Filed under: Military
Tweet Dan Abrams, who’s some sort of ABC talking head, has weighed in about Mike McQueary. Because I’ve already flogged the topic to death in other posts, I won’t explain here why I strongly disagree with his argument that McQueary really didn’t do anything that wrong. What intrigued me in the article was a point [...]
Child rape: high standards and zero tolerance *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Nov 15 2011 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
Tweet I never thought there’d come a day when I’d agree with Andrew Sullivan, but I just saw a pig fly by outside my window, so this must be the day. He and Megan McArdle have differing views about the appropriate response when you see your boss raping a child. Here’s Sullivan’s response to someone’s [...]
Penn State and the slow death of American self-reliance
Bookworm on Nov 13 2011 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Crime and punishment, Government, Leftist morality
Tweet In the wake of the horrific child abuse scandal roiling Penn State, many have been trying to understand how Sandusky’s predatory behavior could have continued unchecked for so long. The focal point of this “how could this happen” question is the fact that Mike McQueary actually witnessed an assault. Rather than rearranging Sandusky’s face, [...]
