Headline of the day:
Category: Headlines
Hard-Boiled Animals
Mother Nature Put On Notice
Rev. Jesse Jackson plans Katrina protest march in New Orleans.
Good luck on that whole boycotting the weather thing.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Has Too Much Street Cred
Headline: Snitch’s death frees murder suspect
Regardless of the circumstances of the confession nor the nature of the man’s death, I think a professional journalist would have called the man an informant or a witness.
Instead, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch takes its street cred pose and applies the term popularized on the "Stop Snitching" streetwear.
Such shenanigans make me regret I had but one subscription to revoke for my disgust.
I Don’t See That
Neither will anyone else, which makes one wonder what the point is:
February Down to 23 Days in Certain St. Louis County Municipalities
You thought eminient domain was bad:
Wow, I Though He Was Dead Already
Mourn a moment with me for the recently departed poet: ‘Tiger’ creator Blake dead at 87
I was under the impression that WIlliam Blake had died a long time ago, but you know how colleges are these days, imparting the young with bad information. Let’s eligooglate the man with his most famous work:
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The Tiger
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And, when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
No, I didn’t click through the headline on CNN.com. Why do you ask?
Spoken Like a True Trekker
Professor Bainbridge: The Patriot Act: What Would Kirk Do?
Oh, wait, he means some legal eagle named Russell Kirk. Oh, well.
Headline on the Day
Reluctant victim sees priest get 20 years
No word on what the willing victims saw.
Two Headlines, Possibly Unrelated
Where Will We Get Scotch Tape?
Wilma Kills 6 in Fla.; 6M Without Power
What do you mean, thats 3 Ms too many? Oh….
The Value of Proofreading
How Much Bias Can You Fit Into a Headline?
Brown Shifts Blame for Katrina Response
- Something went wrong with Federal Katrina response.
- Katrina response merits blame.
- Brown deserves the blame.
- Brown is trying to blame someone else for the blame which is rightfully his.
I would think “Brown Testifies Before Congress” would be a more neutral headline, but then again, I don’t think neutral headline or unbiased journalism are redundancies.
Feel free to spot your own!
Fortunately, the Audio Cassettes Were OK
The Autumn Collection
Models show ‘massive devastation’ in Houston.
Thanks, but I don’t care what Texan designers have cooked up to sell clothes this year.
Thankfully, I Can Sleep Tonight
without worry:
Headline I’d Like To See
Sounds Like A Job Opening
Outrage In New York City as Alternate Lifestyles Attacked
Health officials urge New York City restaurant ban on fat trans
It’s unconscionable that New York City government would, in the interest of “public good,” would ban transvestites and transsexuals from restaurants. That for the benefit of a greater number, the city would prohibit obese individuals who expressing their individual rights to expression by wearing opposite gender clothes or roles from attending restaurants and would further strip private property rights from restaurant owners to tell them which alternative lifestyles, of which weights, the restaurant owners can serve.
THIS OUTRAGE MUST NOT STAND! THOSE WITH ALTERNATE LIFESTYLES MUST BE DEFENDED!
Oh, wait a minute, I have transposed the headline:
Health officials urge New York City restaurant ban on trans fats
Well, the government banning alternate frystyles and usurping individual responsibility of eaters and private property rights of restauranteurs to ensure that The Children are as trim and svelte as our benevolent government leaders wish they were? Carry on.
Blood Screening Allies Itself With Disease
Headline:
Reports: Blood screening helps West Nile fight
Perhaps it’s only helping West Nile by providing financial or logistical support, but we need to stomp out blood screening now if we’re ever to conquer its friend West Nile.