Wall Street Journal earns Dummy Editor Award of the Year for headline today

Landmines will only pockmark a road after they've exploded, guys, and this is a story about lurking dangers, unexploded mines, so there aren't any pockmarks.

Also the notion of landmines suggests the economy faces an enemy bent on sabotaging our progress, a wildly inapt metaphor since our economic woes are clearly self-inflicted.

Neither Osama bin Laden nor Mahmoud Ahmadinijed nor Hugo Chavez can be held responsible for the creation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae or subprime mortgages, or payments schemes at banks that rewarded employees based on the volume of loans gotten out the door regardless of viability, or silly notions of too-big-to-fail - editor.

TOLLROADSnews 2009-06-08