Penn State child rape deception: "One more lie to maintain the preposterously lucrative unreality of college athletics."

There are times when the only thought occurring to you after reading an essay is this: Why couldn't I have written that?

The Brutal Truth About Penn State: The problem can't be solved by prayer or piety — and it's far more widespread than we think, by Charles P. Pierce (Grantland).

... It no longer matters if there continues to be a football program at Penn State. It no longer even matters if there continues to be a university there at all. All of these considerations are trivial by comparison to what went on in and around the Penn State football program ...

... It is not a failure of our institutions so much as it is a window into what they have become — soulless, profit-driven monsters, Darwinian predators with precious little humanity left in them. Penn State is only the most recent example. Too much of this country is too big to fail.

"Marching with the SlutWalkers."

Seriously: One doesn't read about such thought-provoking matters in the Courier-Journal. Perhaps LEO, though. Given that this movement began in Toronto, and The Guardian is British, is there even an American branch?

Marching with the SlutWalkers, by Tonya Gold (The Guardian)

The SlutWalk movement has divided feminists. Should women try to reclaim the word? And is undressing the best way to protest against rape?

Hitchens on the Pope.

Hitchens is a great favorite of mine.

The Great Catholic Cover-Up: The pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it, by Christopher Hitchens

... Concerning the most recent revelations about the steady complicity of the Vatican in the ongoing—indeed endless—scandal of child rape, a few days later a spokesman for the Holy See made a concession in the guise of a denial. It was clear, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, that an attempt was being made "to find elements to involve the Holy Father personally in issues of abuse." He stupidly went on to say that "those efforts have failed."

He was wrong twice ...