For some reason, this has been an interesting week for headline writers. While probably nothing will ever top the infamous “British Left Waffles on Falklands” for noun/verb/adjective confusion, these were pretty good.
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You know they had fun with this one:
Under the category of “this explains a lot”:
And no discussion of headlines would be complete without an entry from Florida Man:
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From cminus:
I nominate
The Geogre’s comment (and the whole thread that follows)
The Geogre and I went off topic, and he/she got further and further into how today’s Universities recruit for students, what they advertise versus the real problems - each time coming up with on-the-nose hilarious examples that just described my own venerable institution to a T, without knowing it.
Shows that it’s probably true all across the US.
From thurayya:
Crashing Vor nails it, in response to John Bolton's idiotic remark about not speaking Arabic.
Highlighted by ten canvassers:
This diary-worthy comment by Front Toward Enemy on being being blue in a red state like Mississippi, and how we miss important progress if we only look at the end numbers. Here’s a snippet, but read the whole thing:
‘I know, “getting close” doesn’t get to pass any legislation, but still, Republicans are having to fight for survival in places they usually can take for granted. Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. No state is one you can just discard anymore.’
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