Burn Your Bra, Baby: The leftist mentality in sport: In the name of "equal pay," a bra manufacturer, Shock Absorber, will pony up to the women's champ at Wimbledon:

Under the current financial structure, the men's champion is rewarded with a cheque for £575,000, while the women's champion takes home £535,000 . . . Shock Absorber, which runs a number of high-profile adverts with Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova, decided to pay out to cover the shortfall.

Let's all feel good about ourselves for a minute. Done? Here's Billie Jean King, proving that a couple of Slazengers to the head can impair reasoning:

It means a lot to me and a lot to the players. We want to get closer and closer to equality across the board, in every area of life, so that we can walk side by side with men.

Maybe you could get the events to pay out equal money if you played the same game as the men, Billie, but as long as your sisters cling to the we're-too-dainty-to-play-five-sets status quo, you look like a mewling charity case. "Walk side by side with men"? Give me a day off, for christ's sake. You know, I'm an editor, and Joe Lelyveld is too. Maybe we should both put our salaries into a big pot and divvy up at the end of the year. Of course, I don't put in nearly the hours he does, but after all, fair's fair. I'll take it in cash, Joe.

A spokesman for the All England Club said: "Anything that brings any money into the game is to be welcomed."

Giving someone who just won half a million pounds (and a lot of endorsements) an extra 40 large qualifies as bringing money into the game?