The Rest of College Football

[hack]

I think if you're looking at a long-term evolution you can imagine, that if EVERYBODY in the B1G and PAC are like-minded, you just drop the pretense of a national-level sport and create your own little post-season tournament. But that's not necessarily the case. You have OSU and USC pretty dedicated to the SEC approach, and maybe Oregon too. Does that ruin the integrity of the thing? I don't know. But I agree that, eventually, the SEC will kill its own supposed golden goose.

[hack]

Couldn't be less surprised. (http://www.governing.com/topics/poli...ing-study.html)

[drok]

SEC! SEC! SEC!

[The Oracle]

Look at fuckin South Dakota. Haha! WTF?

[*JD*]

And Alaska.

[Wild Hoss]

SD is more corrupt than Texas? Riiiiiiiiiight.

More likely that SD prosecutors are less corrupt than those in Texas.

[hack]

I betcha there's been one incident that skewed that. I'm surprised Texas wasn't higher myself.

[Tony G]

U.S. Public Officials' Corruption, 1978-2008

[Tony G]

http://www.governing.com/blogs/by-the-numbers/state-public-corruption-convictions-data.html

Which States Have the Highest Public Corruption Convictions?

[Wild Hoss]

I'd like to think Nebraska's bitches were lilly-white, but given the amount of one-party-dominance and cronyism that goes on I suspect that its similar to Texas...shit just gets swept under the rug.

[Hannibal]

Wouldn't that happen everywhere though?

[Hannibal]

South Dakota being on there seems kind of weird. You don't hear about it much in that context.

[Wild Hoss]

Wouldn't that happen everywhere though?

Not unless everywhere is equally cronyistic and one-party dominant.

[Jeff Buchanan]

My sense is that making a listing like this is an enormous waste of time.

Politics, and the corruption (widely defined) that is part of it in governance, is a way of life even though we think democratically governed countries have less of that sort of thing than those countries that are not particularly democratic, despite what they say.

Who gives a rat's ass whether one state is politically more corrupt than another? At some level every government struggles with the self interests of its politicians that fosters corruption.

The thing to be more concerned about is what the electorate is willing to do about it. IMO, not very much. That is because there is as much self interest among this group than there is among dirty politicians.

[hack]

I posted the graphic in the context of football, there's the LOL/SEC factor. But if we want to get a little bit serious about it then Fuck the South. Pretty disgusting place.