Garbage In, Garbage Out

The holiday season brings out the best in people, except journalists who seem to drop into some sort of IQ-draining coma. Here's a headline from Wednesday: "Holiday Travel Rush Starts Smoothly."

In other words, nothing happened. Interstate Used By Some.

Followed by Friday's "Bargain Shoppers Seek Holiday Specials." Wow. I bet the fatcats in Washington tried to put a lid on that one. Powerful stuff, really.

Finally, today saw an exception. "Woman Trampled, Knocked Unconscious By Wal-Mart Shoppers.*" Apparently, the woman was run over by a mob racing for 29 dollar DVD players. Now that's news: 29 dollar DVD players. Astounding.

*Studpidly, when I was looking up the trampling article, I typed "woman trampled" not into the Yahoo! news search but regular Yahoo! The first page was this. I don't know whether it's safe, so do not click these links. Unless you're into it. In which case, have at it.