FAR BE IT FROM ME TO SUGGEST A CONNECTION between the hiring of former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a proponent of torture, er, enhanced interrogation techniques, to give lectures on government and the law at Texas Tech University earlier this year and the firing today of their highly successful football coach Mike Leach for having forced a player with a concussion to stand up for 2-3 hours at a time for two days in a row in a small dark room (with a guard posted outside) as some sort of punishment for having gotten himself hit hard in the head.
NAH, IT'S JUST A COSMIC COINCIDENCE that a university with such low standards for its personnel's previous behavior and questionable moral judgement would hire a lawyer-politician known most for his cavalier treatment of the "quaint" U.S. Constitution and also that their maverick football coach, with a reputation for shooting off his mouth crudely from the hip and who styles himself as an outlaw type of coach, would mete out discipline more suited for slightly post-medieval times (again, to a player with a concussion!).
The university did the right thing by firing Leach. Do you think it will occur to its president and regents that consistency, even after the fact, would actually be a good thing here and fire Gonzales as well? Or will it continue to present itself as a good and decent institution of higher learning but itself not learn a thing from its own experience?
[Personal note: This is not meant to be a conspiratorial diary, nor is it meant to be patently offensive to anyone, besides maybe fans of Texas Tech. It's supposed to be a joke. Don't ban me, breaux!]