Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.—Gustav Mahler

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Headless Headline

The job of a political and cultural columnist has oh, so many demands, the most strenuous of which is reading the Yahoo headlines more or less every hour. Yahoo News, incidentally, is provided by Reuters.

Over the years, I have had occasion to highlight the doozies that they seem to produce all too often. Perhaps my all-time favorite came after a man shot up a Wisconsin church a few months ago, murdering seven innocent parishioners. The headline of their follow-up story read: Church Gunman Upset Over Sermon. That may never be topped.

But I loved this one today: Jolie Hails 'Strength and Spirit' Of Sierra Leone. I guess you have to go to collagen to learn worldly stuff like that.

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