Tag Archives: Crimes

Penn State Sex Scandal: “Losing Control Draws Me Toward All of This”

Joe Paterno has been fired as football coach at Penn State. It happened at about 10 pm yesterday. News reports say he was notified of his dismissal by phone. The situation evokes grief over all that has been lost, astonishment over the absurd disproportionality of it all, and of course outrage over crimes reportedly committed …

November 10, 2011 – 1:02 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

“Christian faith and modern British politics, a layman’s view”

From mattghg in the UK, a principle applicable anywhere: My own view is that it is extremely puzzling for a government to legislate in such a way as to make ‘incitement to x’ illegal, when ‘x’ itself isn’t illegal. Take incitement to murder (right). Murder is illegal, and so for incitement to murder to be …

May 8, 2010 – 6:59 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments Off