And add to your virtue, genocide

Bill Bennett, the former Secretary of Education who gambled away most of the tidy living he raked in as a Republican pundit and author of The Book of Virtues, just can't keep his trap shut.

Read with amazement the latest morsel of wisdom from the flapping lips of Bingo Bill:

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

Here's what I know, Bill: If we retroactively aborted every racist, right-wing yahoo in America, not only would the crime rate go down, but the collective IQ of the nation would increase exponentially.

Of course, in Bennett's own words, that would be "an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do."

But I'm just saying.

Speaking of racist yahoos, what's up with the pinhead who mailed a death threat to New York Yankees star Derek Jeter, telling the Yankee captain to stop dating white women or "he'll be shot or set on fire"?

Clearly, the writer of the letter should invest a little time in finding a woman of his own, rather than worrying so much about the women Derek Jeter is dating. Then again, most women of quality, given the choice between dating a millionaire superstar athlete bound for the Hall of Fame or dating some pathetic, anonymous loser with an inferiority complex, would opt for Derek Jeter every time.

Incidentally, when the death-threatener calls Jeter "a traitor to his race," to which race does he refer? Jeter's mother is Caucasian, his father African-American.

I guess it's conceivable that the race the writer meant was the human race. But if he's looking for traitors to that race, he might start his search in the bathroom mirror.

Or at Bill Bennett's house.