The Drunken Doofus of York

The former Duchess of York goes on Oprah, to spill her drink, 'er guts.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has told Oprah Winfrey she was drinking and "in the gutter" during a videotaped sting in which she apparently offered to sell access to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew.
"I'm aware of the fact that I've been drinking, you know, that I was not in my right place," Ferguson said in an interview set to air on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Tuesday.

Now, we're all aware.

Sestak Job Update Central

Here's my print column on JobSchmobgate.

Here's today's excellent editorial on the matter.

And here's Jennifer Rubin's take. It begins:

As he often does, Obama tried to distance himself from his own administration’s mess. He ducked a personal response and had his lawyer issue a memo on the Joe Sestak job-offer scandal on the Friday before Memorial Day. He thereby succeeded in revealing that Sestak is a fabulist, his own White House is little more than a Blago-like operation, an ex-president has been reduced to the the role of a “cut out,” and the whole lot of them practice the same sleazy-politics-as usual that Obama ran against (which, ironically, was symbolized in the primary by Hillary Clinton).

UPDATE: The Washington Examiner editorial board isn't laughing at the Sestak joke.

Back to Title IX Brainlessness

The Obama Administration makes it easier to sue colleges that don't have the same number of male and female varsity athletes.

It will once again put the emphasis for Title IX compliance on the proportionality prong of the policy’s three-part test. Technically, there are supposed to be three ways for a school to comply with Title IX. However, since the Cohen v. Brown ruling in 1995, the courts and federal bureaucrats have made clear to schools that when it comes to the threat of Title IX litigation, only the proportionality test will give them a safe harbor.

The 2005 Bush policy clarification addressed this problem by offering, for the first time, an official survey method for schools to measure student interest in sports. Although it didn’t go so far as to require schools to survey all students, just those of the “underrepresented” gender (women), it still constituted a step towards fairer and more reasonable regulations, by letting institutions show that female students were participating in sports in proportion to their expressed interest in doing so. But the method was labeled a “loophole” by its detractors. Apparently, asking students what they want is too much information for the likes of the Obama administration and its friends at the NCAA.

In other words, the Obama Team doesn't care whether women express less interest playing varsity sports than men at the same school. If that happens, its the school's fault for not raising women's sports consciousness to the government approved level.

And In Sports...

The Phillies are hitting like they are facing their own Roy Halladay every day. On one night last week Halladay was "perfect." The Phillies bats have been perfectly awful for more than a week.

This is nothing more than your typical slump. Atypical for the length of time it has lasted for hitters this good, but typical none the less. But better it comes now in the first half of the season than in the more important second half. The Phils have dropped out of first place. Big deal. It's June 1st, not even summer yet.


Meanwhile the (O-2) Flyers have the Blackhawks right where they want them.

Impoverished Poverty Statistics

Robert Samuelson explains why are poverty statistics are so misleading. Robert Rector at the American Enterprise Institute has been explaining the same thing for years.

What We Owe Our Troops

Spencerblog pretty much took the Memorial Day Weekend off. Ralph Peters didn't and neither do our troops.

Cheers Disappears?

This overhead shot of Upper Darby shows the site where Cheers bar used to be and how it was sucked into hell by the forces of darkness. Owner Bob Herdelin announced that he is suing Satan for cancelling his lease without proper notice.


Oh, wait. This isn't Upper Darby. It's Guatemala City. Sorry about that, Bob. Sorry about that, Guatemala.