FOCUSING ON THE IMPORTANT ISSUES: “Day Before Hack Announced, OPM Released ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination’ Guide — OPM’s seven ‘top priorities’ includes ‘diversity’ but not ‘security.'”

Which is reminiscent of former New York Times editor Howell Raines’ classic line regarding the program that resulted in the hiring of Jayson Blair: “This campaign has made our staff better and, more importantly, more diverse.” As Wlady Pleszczynski of the American Spectator wrote in 2003, “you’ve got to love that Freudian slip, in which Raines puts a higher premium on diversity than on quality.”

Which sums up both ends of the Northeast Corridor rather well this week, doesn’t it?