Best awkwardly conspicuous simile, from “Pilot Duped AMA With Fake M.D. Claim“:
However, United grounded him in August after his medical and doctoral degrees evaporated like contrails of the jets he flew.*
Best item in Weddings/Celebrations: a lawyer named Sue Yoo gets married. (The ancients called this kind of coincidence “nomen/omen.” The moderns call it “racist punnery.”)
Best opportunity for people to fight about pit bulls: hospital admissions for dog bites nearly doubled between 1993 and 2008, and the average cost of treating victims was $18,200.
*This is actually an AP story being carried by the Times. What gives with the lyricism, AP?
Before everyone freaks out too much: the outrageous $18,200 figure comes from people who are kept in the hospital due to dog bites, not just people who have to go to the ER.
It’s still totally insane, of course.
Four Loko is banned because one person got drunk, but meanwhile people are getting killed and maimed by pit bulls, and nobody seems to have a problem with that.
If I were McDonald’s, I’d be sure to serve Mrs. Yoo only moderately hot coffee.