SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:54 P.M. ET: 

BAD WEEK – After being eased out of office as secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius made a parting statement at the White House, in the presence of the president, and had to admit that a page was missing, reinforcing her image as less than competent.  Then came the topper, reported by Breitbart:  "Newly-retired Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius misspelled the name of her successor, Sylvia Burwell, in her final goodbye email to her HHS coworkers, reports Politico."  Details, details.  But we still wish her well.   She was handed the absurd assignment of launching and promoting Obamacare, which is like building and promoting the Titanic.

AIRLINER UPDATE – From Fox:  "PERTH, Australia – Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, meaning the batteries in the plane's all-important black boxes may finally have died.  Despite having no new transmissions from the black boxes' locator beacons to go on, air and sea crews were continuing their search in the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday for debris and any sounds that may still be emanating. They are desperately trying to pinpoint where the Boeing 777 could be amid an enormous patch of deep ocean." 

YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS UP – From the College Fix:  "Sorority sisters at The University of Connecticut are being investigated for harassing men, and 'forcing them' to do various humiliating things, Fox News reports:  [Officials will] investigate allegations that its members forced men to drink booze, eat dog treats, paint their bodies, wear women’s underwear and take alcohol shots off each other’s bodies."  As College Fix writes, "If there really are college-age men out there who feel powerless to refuse to do what some sorority sisters tell them to do, then maybe they actually belong in women’s underwear."

April 13, 2014