Way to Go, Joe

Penn State (5-2) football coach Joe Paterno is under a lot of pressure. He’s also 80, which is a time in life when some people get sweet and others can get a little crotchety.
Regardless, many probably applaud him for chastising a woman driver who went through a stop sign on the Penn State campus. He pulled along side and pointed his finger at her. It was not his middle finger, he insists
I caution my wife not to do this because sure as heck the driver will have an AK-47 on the seat beside him or her.
But Joe did it, going on to tell her he had her license plate number.
Enter, stage left, the woman’s husband to whom Paterno said, “That’s your problem.” He later said he regretted that comment.
Of course it got blown out of proportion. The woman, a Penn State employee, filed a complaint. University police investigated and, surprise, decided there was no reason to file any charges against the Nittany Lions coach. Incident closed.

Having absolutely nothing to do with the above, the Wall Street Journal editorial page Oct. 13 had a somewhat crotchety response to Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The Journal, which probably never met a Gore position it liked and most certainly is cool on his global warming views, ran a lead editorial that did not mention Gore, but listed people who did NOT get the prize and it felt should be considered next year.
Among those the Journal considers more deserving than Gore: “Thousands of Chinese bloggers who run the risk of arrest by trying to bring uncensored information to their countrymen.”
Little Nobel Peace Prizes to thousands of gutsy bloggers? That’s a bush league response, if you get what I mean.