February 2012
9 posts
Canadian Economy Suffers From Dollar Parity's... →
What?
Avoid $2,000 Bottles of Aging Vintages, Go With... →
Somehow I doubt that someone who buys $2000 bottles of wine is really interested in your advice, John. Or anyone’s advice.
Jeremy Lin Drives Knicks’ Sales as MSG Shares... →
This is really an unfortunate stereotype - Chinese food can be quite tasty without MSG.
Tax Liens Promising 18% Returns May Be Risky →
Collecting unpaid taxes on overvalued properties in a collapsing housing market may be risky? Ya think?
No Women on Facebook Board Shows White Male’s... →
(typo - should be either “No women show”, or “No woman shows”)
Well, I guess it’s good news that none of the female board members at Facebook can prove that the company’s social agenda is influenced by a white male. But maybe they’re a little biased?
Prostitutes Stand Up for Paul Donating Their Tips →
It’s nice that they’re backing his charitable activities, but how did Paul get the prostitutes’ tips to begin with?
Or maybe I’m reading the headline wrong. In which case it’s impressive a 76-year-old guy can do it standing up - that can be really tiring.
Race for the cure to being relevant →
Ed of ginandtacos owns the Komen issue.
Sustainability: No One Knows What It Means But... →
What makes this headline interesting is that it’s part of a permanent news section that’s titled, um, ”Sustainability”. And that it’s followed by a link to “More sustainability news”.
January 2012
12 posts
Facebook’s Sandberg Friends Gaga to Obama as IPO... →
I think this headline is missing a verb and a few prepositions, but I have no idea which ones.
How Kenya Is Building a Sustainable Banana →
And when they’re finished, they’ll start work on a second sustainable banana.
Top Woman in Oil to Head $225 Billion Plan as... →
Mmmm … Brazilian women in oil …
I really, really need to channel my imagination more productively.
Millionaires Back Buffett Tax If They’re Exempt →
Actually this one may fit better at the onionlike tumblr.
U.K. Smart-Meter Plan May Fail Old People →
Lazard Names Kurtz Restructuring Chief to Take... →
The horror. The horror …
Malta Lures Hedge Funds With 300 Days of Sun Aided... →
Talk about bureaucratic overreach!
Mishkin’s Mixes Jewish Cuisine, Pork, Guantanamo... →
Sheikh Fahad Holding IPad Gazes at Breitling... →
Lesson: if you really want to win those big-time horse races, stop looking at your watch & computer and get moving.
Sex Toy Designer Screaming O Pushes Past Novelty... →
This is one of those cases where adding punctuation might help, or might not.
December 2011
4 posts
Putin's goal of benchmark Urals seen in Rotterdam... →
(fixed link)
Merkel Cabinet Backs Bank-Rescue Fund Revival →
So providing money to insolvent German banks is obviously prudent and necessary to prevent systemic risk. But providing money to insolvent members of the eurozone is unthinkable because it generates moral hazard. Riiight.
Eight Ferraris Crash at ‘Gathering of Narcissists’ →
Gingrich Said Freddie Mac Could Be Good Model for... →
November 2011
3 posts
Gingrich Bounce Shows Geek Love Can Still Blossom:... →
Or it shows that right-wing hack columnists can still show embarrassingly heartfelt levels of affection for right-wing hack blowhard politicians. It shows one of those two things.
Fewer TSA Complaints Belie Marx Brothers Label →
Obama Meets Gillard as Embattled First Leaders... →
Evokes visions of a guy and a gal in dented armor, next to a huge pile of rare earth metals.
October 2011
11 posts
Colonel Sanders Devouring Little Sheep in China... →
Well, they looked like little chickens. Tasted like them too.
Crabs Feasting on Dead at Gallipoli Cooked in... →
Billionaire Dethrones Kings in Beer to Burgers as... →
J&J Vaginal Mesh Based on Recalled Device →
Now where did I put that device? I just can’t recall. Oh, wait …
OK, posting this is a sign of immaturity.
Actual quote from the article: “‘The FDA got caught with their pants down, ’ said Thomas Margolis, a pelvic surgeon from Burlingame, California, … ”
London Mansion Resurfaces on Hedge-Fund Row →
They mean a mansion was converted into offices and has now been converted back. But the imagery of mansions disappearing and resurfacing is intriguing.
Fed Pays Lip Service to Beef to Skirt Ridicule →
Strauss-Kahn’s Image Still ‘Stained’ by Cases →
Don’t blame me, says the headline-writer - it was the guy in the article who said “stained”. No, really.
Senate Blocks Obama’s $447B Job Creation Plan →
See, from the headline you might think that the Senate voted against the plan. But from the text you can see that actually a majority of the Senate voted to bring it to a vote. It’s really much, much too late in the game to say the filibuster is an “arcane rule” - if Democrats haven’t made this into a major, populist issue by now, as part of a broader attack on Republican...
China Baby-Formula Maker Buying Arsenic Debt Shows... →
The stupidest argument ever
So now that my readership has skyrocketed into the double-digits, can I say something about the profound stupidity of the argument that goes like this: “Hey, if you’re rich and you think rich people should pay more taxes, why don’t you just give the government your money, huh????!!!???”? This is a central part of the 2012 Republican platform, apparently. I also recently saw...
Oral Sex May Cause More Throat Cancer Than Smoking... →
Oral sex causes smoking? Who knew?
Also, how long after HPV becomes a majority-male disease will the religious right drop their objections to vaccinating against it? Two seconds? One?
September 2011
5 posts
Saudi Woman Driver Sentenced to 10 Lashes After... →
Don’t want the gals to get the wrong ideas. Oh, and is anyone starting to wonder what “the right to vote” means in an absolutist monarchy?
Saudi King Grants Women Right to Vote →
Not the syntax this time, just the fact that this is taking place in 2011.
What’s next, letting them drive?
HP Reeling Accelerates CEO Succession Crisis →
Men Selling Panties May End in Saudi Arabia →
But the headline is actually pretty accurate.
GE Beating S&P Sets Profit Goal After Immelt... →
August 2011
4 posts
Solar Purge Drives Weakest Into Buyouts, to Spur... →
AT&T Bid for T-Mobile Faces Rhodes-Scholar Review... →
The woman heading the antitrust review was once a Rhodes Scholar (she’s now 50 years old). Is that an important enough piece of information to merit space in a headline?
PepsiCo Joins Fossil Bracing for Weak Demand →
Silent Scream of Swiss Franc Shows Great... →
July 2011
1 post
Beal Becomes Billionaire With FDIC Assets as He... →
June 2011
2 posts
Branson's Red Stiletto Handouts Complicate Virgin... →
Changed a moment ago to “Branson’s Attachment Make Virgin Investor Search Tough”, which is ungrammatical and also strange.