The Greatest Lede in the History of Journalism

“Sonic booms created by Israeli air force planes breaking the sound barrier have stimulated the sex drive of a group of crocodiles on a local farm,” the London Telegraph reports, with tongue hopefully in cheek, along with a headline that’s equally punchy:

Israeli air force sonic booms ignite crocodiles’ sex drives

As blogger Jammie Wearing Fool writes, “If you thought blaming Mossad for the shark attacks off Egyptian waters was dumb, how silly is this?”

At the start of the month, Michael Ledeen cut to the chase, and summed all of these stories up with an equally great headline: “It’s the Jews, Stupid! (What Was the Question?)”