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Wasn't that Superman's father? if you're scoring along at home, yes. Dumb plays on people's names are still forbidden, even in the party press.

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posted by fev at 6:01 PM 0 comments links to this post Those pesky snow shovels OK, a few points:

1) By all accounts, "spring" is right on schedule. It starts in a month.
2) Since you're not leading with the earthquake, I'm going to guess that we're still in "Michigan." Where it, you know, actually snows in the spring.
3) Given those presumptions about the fabric of space-time, should you maybe have remembered what happened last time snow was in the forecast -- say, last month? Enough snow shovels. Think of the children.

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posted by fev at 5:53 PM 0 comments links to this post 
Calls make claim Want to take a swing at what the hed means without reading the story?


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Mess him up, Franny 

Don't hold back, Fox! Let's see how it started:

Because you know who's going to finish it, right?

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posted by fev at 7:55 PM 0 comments links to this post 
13 Detroit fallout shelters that are bigger on the inside 

posted by fev at 6:56 PM 0 comments links to this post 
Who had 'turn on the TV'? Unless there's a new drinking game here to clue us in to, I think the instructions go something like this:

1) Turn on the TV
2) Sit in front of the TV
3) Watch debate

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posted by fev at 8:24 PM 0 comments links to this post 
Thanks, liberal media! 

And why would we think it does that?

By -- anyone in particular?
 Tuesday, February 09, 2016

I mixted you a metąphor

Somehow, I think we're missing the point here:

Hamtramck — It's Black Friday for foodies.

It's a last taste of decadence before a season of denial and penance.

It's Fat Tuesday. Paczki Day, as Metro Detroiters know it.

I'm not bothered by likening a Tuesday to a Friday, but Black Friday seems like the wrong one for a "last taste of decadence before a season of denial." Nor (having had two last night and one this morning) am I convinced that paczkis* are the stuff "foodies" are made of.
But it wouldn't be a holiday without a little excess writering in the press, would it?

* Like both local papers, I kind of go both ways on how to pluralize it.

Labels: editing, metaphor, writing 
And it tasted like chicken Just a reminder, as useful for natural disasters as it is for campaign coverage: If it's the first thing that comes to mind, lie down and wait for a second thing to come to mind.

Headlines shouldn't be a drinking game. Storms don't have to sound like freight trains. Unfamiliar parts of nonnative reptiles don't have to taste like chicken. You don't have to say "establishment lane" or "Granite State" or "gloves came off" -- let alone "Real Clear Politics average." Think of the children.

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