This isn’t one of those pieces that I wanted to write. This is one of those pieces thatIhadto write, so that I can stop obsessing about something and move on.

What I’ve been obsessing about lately is the media coverage of the Penn Statescandal. I can’t stop reading other people’s writing about Penn State. I can’t stopanalyzing it and fact-checking it and pointing out, on Twitter, all that is dumband lazy and opportunistic and grandstanding and cheap. I needhelp, is whatI’m saying.

I went to Pen...