SCALZI OFFERS HEADLINE-WRITER SNARK:

“The Poor Suffer the Most”

Used, for example, in this news header today in a story about food shortages: “As a brutal convergence of events hits an unprepared global market, and grain prices go sky high, the world’s poor suffer most.”

Really? The poor suffering the most? It’s hard to imagine. Because, you know, usually when there’s a major global crisis of any sort, it’s the poor sitting there on the sidelines, going whew, dodged that bullet.

Indeed. But it’s not all beer and skittles for the rich, as evidenced by “The Great Davos Lobster Bisque Inconvenience of ‘04.” Some still shudder at the memory.