No! The Super Bowl was not a joyous event. The Bears had their chance to knock out the Packers (when they were hobbled by injuries) in the championship game and failed. This year the Packers come back healthy and I am afraid the Bears have little chance.
Enjoy it while it lasts!
I am sure this will be reported as off topic so read it fast!
It's like I can hear paws and whiskers twitching from here.
However it does tie into something that might make for an interesting diversion whilst we wait for Daddy Hellmann to deliver his verdict. As a
Bears fan, you no doubt have a vested interest in
punishing incompetence, it seems to be a common theme amongst members of that curious tribe around here, you might even say there were Packer fans more empathetic towards a certain signal-caller after that game you speak of than the merciless antipathy recorded on the airwaves from his own 'supporters.' Talk about hate cults!
However there's something I couldn't help but notice as I was making my list of those most responsible for this travesty occurring: they kinda let the ladies twist in the wind here, didn't they? It was Napoleoni, Ficarra, Zugarini and Domino that had to go into that courtroom and tell that absurdist fantasy about cartwheels cupcakes and tea regarding the interrogation, but there were
twelve police officers involved in that interrogation, most of, if not all of the rest of them,
male. At least three of them outranking Napoleoni, yet they didn't seem to take any responsibility whatsoever. Isn't that strange?
Everyone whose read the
Conti-Vecchiotti Report thanks to the efforts of Komponisto and Katy-Did, knows in exquisite detail what miserable and suspicious work Stefanoni did on the bra clasp and knife, but Biondi, her boss who 'independently' approved her work
and may even have ordered it is hardly even mentioned, doesn't the buck stop at the top in most organizations like that? When does he get his day to squirm on the stand? As the prosecutor is the final arbiter of evidence standards assuming a compliant judge, one might look to Mignini as well in this regard, but curiously he made quite clear that Comodi is the DNA expert and he is a humble dealer in spices as far as that kind of evidence is concerned. That works out nicely for him, doesn't it?
If I were to put together a list of which officials are due condemnation, and my list is a large one even if it is never fulfilled, there is a disproportionate inclusion of the female ones, but as I stop and think on it, is that because the most is known about their role simply because the
guys are hiding behind their skirts? Perhaps it is merely wishful thinking, but I think it not impossible that there could be fallout that affects more than a couple people here, although most people I've seen seem to think most will skate away unscathed. However while they didn't invent it of course, the Romans are the ones who made the '
object lesson' famous, even added cool new
words for people to use about how ineffectual organizations can be punished. Perhaps something of that tradition survives in Italian culture today, so close to Rome itself and so apparently in need of some baleful oversight?
