So, things are getting even crazier. The assistant coach whose testimony is central to the exposure of this baby-raper and the cover-up of his crimes won't be going to the game this week in Nebraska because he's been subjected to threats. (This link is to a story that covers the whole shebang pretty comprehensively, for those of you joining this story late.)

My heart bleeds for the poor guy who didn't go to the cops when he saw a grown man allegedly raping a ten-year-old boy, and thereby enabled the sexual abuse of more children. Allegedly.

A question to answer in comments: What's the over-under on bar fights that will be started more or less along these lines: Guy walks into a bar wearing Penn State gear. Someone makes a "Baby-Raper University" comment, melee ensues. Let's do some math: According to Wikipedia,

As of July 1, 2010, the [Penn State] Alumni Association counts 496,969 members within the United States, with an additional 16,180 in countries around the globe

OK, so with over half a million alums (although none are on countries that are not around the globe, so that cuts down on extraterrestrial brawls), I'd say that a minimum of 10,000 bar fights will occur along the lines of the scenario above. Hell, there might be that many in Lincoln this weekend alone (UPDATE: turns out the game is in Happy Rapey Valley, not Nebraska. Still, there might be some PSU alums planning to watch the game in some Lincoln sports bars . . . ).

Students and alumni of Notre Dame, America's first and foremost Roman Catholic university, are of course barred from making such comments, given the performance of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, which makes the administration of Penn State look like the Justice League in comparison to their generations-long cover-ups.