Ticket-giving and other curious acts

I don't think that Sean Medlock had an easy time crossing the street yesterday.  Talk of up close and personal. Go ahead and read this article. Heck of a way to receive a ticket while Sean was in a hospital bed. But Sean's 'accident' was quite a bit different than the Pittsburgh assistant coach who was hit with a coin under his eye almost at the same time. I'm sure Governor Joe Manchin was aghast at this turn of events.  WVU coach Bob Huggins has had to speak to the fans at least one other time because of a throwing incident in Morgantown regarding crowd behavior. Bottomline though is that the University has been less than serious about controlling the behavior. Makes one wonder why.  It is as if there is a group of decision-makers in the state that tout the backward behavior. I think they need to read the Louis L'Amour "Sackett" series or at least those standard sportsmanship readings that are often given at high school sporting events...

And in banking, is Congress making much of an effort to investigate the "Mystery Men of the Financial Crisis?" Not hardly, as I would suspect that this effort is a bi-partisan affair. And so it goes...

And back to sports, at Duquesne University they "flunked the handling of athletic cuts" the other day. Off-handedly affected players learned of their sports demise. Of course, what can one expect given the illustrious charm with which Notre Dame hired their new football coach away from Cincinnati, prior to Cincinnati's bowl game this past December. Evidently, even church-run entities suffer from the same quest for marketability and profitability.  Of course, their behavior in all likelihood is reflected in our culture too...

Go figure. The news of the day makes it seem almost pleasurable to expect a big snowstorm that will paralyze transportation, etc. Natural events may be and can be tragic, but somehow, at least the anticipation makes it seem easier to accept.

Let's hope that we learn from our behavior and perhaps even administer penalties for those behaviors.  When it is all said and done though it comes down to you and I.  It starts right here...

Speaking of which my back blade on my tractor broke the other day.  I guess that is why this snowstorm is coming. I may be shoveling a bit. Then again breathing my last under a deep, white coating of snow might be heaven :).