Ah yes, the old “it would have been worse” fallacy. We don’t know what would have happened without Illitch. The likely results are fewer cups for the Wings, less success for the Tigers, but to say that the downtown area would have wallowed without him is BS. As pointed out in the article, large swaths of downtown may…

When the rich rig the government to give them tax breaks, then take advantage of the tax breaks, and then bitch about the government not giving them enough tax breaks, sane people are not going to “get over it”.

Well-written article. We live in a world where everyone is either Jesus or Hitler, with seemingly no one in between. Most people leave complicated, even contradictory, legacies. And you captured that.

Electrolytes: it’s what fancy dogs crave.

A ton, yes. I believe they adopted six. Those poor fucking kids.

What about Jerry’s wife Dottie?

+1 JoePa was a saint!

+1 plausible deniability

Awful, but hey, how bout them Nittany Lions?!

+1 tarnished legacy

Joe Paterno’s son is already denying he knew anything about this.

This is so deliciously good.

So witches float and wizards sink?

As assault charge (I assume because he bumped a dancer) as well as terroristic threatening? We haven’t militarized our entire life or anything have we?

Being forced to watch the White House orientation video must have been tough for him, since it doesn’t mention him. The part about sexual harassment in the workplace must have been uncomfortable.

The idea that a ruling class would kill the quality of education to ensure more underlings in the future sounds like something from a dystopian novel, but I cannot think of any other rationale behind moves like this.

Always remember: Bad schools make future Republicans! If don’t bother to teach kids how to think, they won’t bother to learn. This locks in your base for the next generation.

What a strange and wholly unconnected set of events!