There are quite a few headlines for this AP story, but the Milwaukee Journal's is hands down the best:
After brief debate, beach town says men can wear Speedos
- The 2005 Scrooge award goes to:
Darren Cullen who wanted to put up two billboards in London reading, "Stop Lying to Your Children About Santa Claus" and "Santa Gives More to Rich Kids Than Poor Kids"
Apparently Cullen also needs some work on parallel structure. His motives behind the billboard messages have some merit, but there has to be another way to approach it.
Mr. Cullen denied he was attempting to ruin the magic of Christmas through the controversial stunt. The 22-year-old said: “Santa Claus is a lie that teaches kids that products will make them happy. Before they’re old enough to think for themselves, the story of Santa has already got them hooked on consumerism. I think that’s more immoral than this billboard.”
- And my favorite news item:
Scientists Confirm Giant Planet
Refined images taken earlier this year by the Very Large Telescope in northern Chile show two separate objects bound by gravity moving together according to Gael Chauvin, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, who led the team.
"Our new images show convincingly that this really is a planet, the first planet that has ever been imaged outside of our solar system," Chauvin said. Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was part of the team: "I'm more than 99 percent confident."
I guess the original name, "The Really Really Big Telescope," was a bit too pretentious.
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