We give the New York Times plenty of grief (and for good reason), but as Hot Air notes, this is an awesome headline.
(Our headline via the Killers.)
Update: What kind of man reads Power Line? The man who wants a gimlet look into “the Playboy Philosophy” — “Hefner made Marcel Proust look like Calvin Coolidge.”
Related: New York magazine’s choices for Greatest Tabloid Headlines:
FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD
(Daily News, 1975)SOMOZA SLAIN BY BAZOOKA
(News, 1980)HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR
(New York Post, 1982)‘I AM DEATH WISH VIGILANTE’
(Bernie Goetz turns himself in; Post, 1985)KOTCHA!
(Koch re-elected; News, 1985)MARLA: ‘BEST SEX I EVER HAD’
(Post, 1990)AMY’S NUDE ROMPS IN JAIL
(Post, 1993)KISS YOUR ASTEROID GOODBYE!
(Meteor misses earth; Post, 1998)CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
(Senate fails to convict Clinton; News, 1999)FROM A BIG HOUSE TO THE BIG HOUSE
(Lizzie Grubman sentenced; News, 2002)AXIS OF WEASEL
(Post, 2003)
Note that the Blogosphere’s own Scott Ott — currently running for PA office — originally wrote that last headline.
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