A reader points out this story from January 16:

Florida International, a former power in men's soccer, eliminated the program Thursday because of financial reasons.

FIU won national championships in 1982 and 1984 while competing at the Division II level. It also reached the 1996 Division I championship game against St. John's....

FIU began a football program last season, a sport that is regarded to be the most expensive for a school to maintain....

Interesting -- the connection between college football's parasitical nature and the decision to eliminate less popular collegiate sports is so self-evident now that even mainstream reporters point it out. Ah, but the Bushies can't acknowledge that. The commission Bush appointed will soon recommend the undermining of Title IX, all because Bush -- yet again -- has to "shore up his base" of angry guys.

A house that had been "shored up" as well as George Bush's base could withstand a nuclear blast in the middle of a perfect storm.