CHAINSAW SYNTAX

Why are Slate’s “Today’s Papers” heads so consistently awful? Do they simply let Umansky have his head since he probably turns copy in around 5 am? Just this past week we’ve had:


Bishop Taken (for some Muslim cleric story)

Rice-a-Crony (for Rice’s testimony)

Goodnight, Johnny (for Johnny Carson’s death)

The Sunni Will Come Out Tomorrow (about Iraq electorate)

Puts me in the mind of Lucifer at the gates of hell when he says “Put the punsters in with the mimes…”