Jerk Off

NYP columnist Andrea Peyser's jerked off over ESPN  perv Steve Phillips's sex addict spin: All a man has to do to get away with a crime -- from drug addiction to violence to sleeping with a gal young enough to be his daughter -- is confess, repent and vow to clean up his act.

And if he falls off the wagon, as Phillips' agent so colorfully described his client's habit of obtaining sexual favors in a parking lot, that's not demonstrably bad. For Phillips, who earlier slimed the Mets by helping himself to the help, that is a relapse.... All that's required to claim that a man's transgression is really a disease over which he is powerless is a large bank account, a small degree of fame, a clueless wife. And a straight face.