Friday, October 29, 2010

Misanthropic Quote of the Day

"Obviously I don't have any knowledge of what motivated his postings, none of us do."
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick on why student Declan Sullivan tweeted "Holy f*** holy f*** this is terrifying" before he was killed when high winds knocked over the lift from which he was filming football practice.

Really?  I tend to think that there are many, many people who have no doubt whatsoever why Sullivan tweeted that.  Perhaps Swarbrick has no knowledge of why he was sent up there in those conditions and perhaps he doesn't know whether the conditions were different at the time the decision to send him up was made, but it strikes me as shockingly callous to suggest that there is anything puzzling about the terror Sullivan felt before his life ended.

1 comment:

  1. He'll figure it out once hes sitting in court.

    Btw.. I started reading "Liars Poker". The story of a bond trader in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pretty good so far. Funny that they are just getting into mortgages and what a tool Volcker (is /) was.

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