Cab Thoughts 7/1/12

Penn State's football program should be discontinued.  But the president of Penn State during the Sandusky period has some serious concerns as well. His bio is curious. He is a psychologist and a family therapist. He is now working for the feds on an unnamed national security project. How did a guy with that background end up where he did and is?

This Fast and Furious thing is becoming a worry. The President says that there is no connection between the administration and the program but then invokes executive privilege. That can only mean two things: one, he was involved and was lying or, two, he was not involved and is covering for Holder. But he cannot use privilege in a crime. Nor can he use privilege if he is not involved. Both of these scenarios are very Nixonian and his administration looks bad here. Good thing no one is watching.

No one protected anyone from Sandusky and no one will be able to protect him from himself.

One of the real sorrows of current affairs is that people go to that vampire Soros for opinions. How anyone can criticize Romney for his business dealings and have any tolerance for Soros who has made a living ruining currencies is beyond me. I do not object to shorting the currencies of inept politicians and citizens but presenting it as a moral act is quite too much. Our culture seems to be able to parse predatory speculators into the good and bad now, really a sign of popular creativity.

The gloom and doom guys are really flocking around the body politic. Many have progressed beyond newsletters to books and some have started mutual funds. Joe Granville, call your office. Maybe this is a sign that things are turning.

Sandusky is something of a metaphor for the state of affairs, laughing and confident but shallow and vulnerable and guilty as sin.

The Supreme Court decision shows several things. First, there are a lot of informed commentator opinions out there that are really wrong. These "experts" show that work is easier to get than it seems. These people are much like stock advisers. Secondly, you know that your opinion is a little off base when the people who agree with you write a scathing dissent on what you said. Third, politics is filled with deception. The one crucial point the administration argued about the Mandate during its debate was that it was not a tax. The reason it was approved was that it was a tax. Now one of our esteemed leaders is wrong about a really important law.

The experience in an airport solidifies that the perpetrators of the 911 atrocity, among other thinks, created the worst public relations act in history. Tens of thousands of people every day curse them. It will never stop.

We have a lot of federally subsidized programs to help people in this country, how about subsidizing Game of Thrones to help me? Make them produce it every week.