SNIPPETS

DECEMBER 6,  2009

Major crime report.  We always hit the big stories:  CINCINNATI (AP) - Talk about sticky fingers: Police arrested a man they say tried to take their candy bars. Police in the southwest Ohio city of Middletown, around 30 miles north of Cincinnati, charge that Derek Kidd, 32, tried to walk out of the station with two candy bars and a police toboggan cap.

I want to know more about the alleged culprit.  Was he persecuted?  A member of an oppressed class, group or "belief system"?  Was his culture not shown proper respect in elementary school?  Let's not just call him a candy thief.

DECEMBER 5,  2009

Reader Frank W. Kelley alerts us to this headline from Fox News:  FBI Hunts Los Angeles Bank Robbers in Nixon Masks.

We're sure the agents look lovely in their Nixon masks.  Actually, this is just a case of bad headline writing.  There's only one robber, and he's the one wearing the Nixon mask.