Category: Headlines

Man rescued from Mississippi

(I know, I don’t have much these days but comments about headlines and book reports.)

Man talking on cell phone killed by Train in San Leandro

Dude, not only is it impolite to talk on a cell phone during a concert, but it’s dangerous as well.

Israeli Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found.

After all, to be elusive, something must actively elude; I mean, your car keys aren’t eluding you if you’ve just forgotten they’re in your coat pocket.

Hoffa to announce Teamster support for Nixon

Put that in Back to the Future IV and have Marty call it “Heavy.”

Drive-by shooting by police headquarters injures 1

F-15 fighter crashes, pilot ejects

Study: Parents avoid vaccinating young children.

Like most, I, too, avoid vaccinating my young child, preferring instead to have the pediatrician do it.

Police, teens split on need for them

The need for police or the need for teens? Silly reader, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline writer is relying on the often overlooked grammatical precept of the implied antecedent, in this case, “curfew.”

Spanish Lake bar sold cocaine, police say

I understand the jukebox was running numbers, too.

Corvette goes airborne, lands on a mobile home in Swansea.

Chevys in the 82nd. What will they think of next?

West Nile reported in Edwardsville

Google opens click-fraud Web site

Melee might lead to arrests

UN OKs 26,000 Peacekeepers for Darfur

Apartment fire fatally injures man in 60s

Disapppointing quality results can spur real change:

Yes, do tell us about quality.

Francis Howell budget has $9 million hike

An eBay auction for a lot of 10 Female Christian Artists.

Paranoia grows over Google’s power

Reuters headline writers were unavailable to surmise how people concerned about the reach of Google’s data depth and related data mining actually went crazy, but Reuters headline writers did not have the time to work up a complete mental profiles. They had only time to diagnose that those people suffer from a delusional disorder or perhaps schizophrenia.