But editing should be a requirement for any online "news" organization:

The case involves a death sentence given to Brandy Holmes. She and her boyfriend, Robert Coleman, were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for killing 709-year-old retired minister Julian Brandon Jr. on New Year's Day 2003.

   The basic fallacy of cash for clunkers is that you can somehow create wealth by destroying existing assets that are still productive, in this case cars that still work. Under the program, auto dealers were required to destroy the car engines of trade-ins with a sodium silicate solution, then smash them and send them to the junk yard. As the journalist Henry Hazlitt wrote in his classic, "Economics in One Lesson," you can't raise living standards by breaking windows so some people can get jobs repairing them.

    In the category of all-time dumb ideas, cash for clunkers rivals the New Deal brainstorm to slaughter pigs to raise pork prices. The people who really belong in the junk yard are the wizards in Washington who peddled this economic malarkey.

I'm no fan of the Raiders - never have been.  Hated them in the 70s when they were the main competition for my fave Stillers.  Hated them since.  But, they are (or were) one of the NFL's signature franchises and a perennial powerhouse.  It appears, though, that since the Snow Bowl in Foxboro a few years back, they have been going in one direction - down.  And the blame for that course lies solely at the feet of Davis.  He's the one who's selecting players and he's selecting coaches.  He does not seem to have any criteria save that he "likes" them.

Baseball suspended Steinbrenner in 1990 when he hired gambler/hustler Howie Spira to get dirt on Dave Winfield, with whom Steinbrenner feuded spectacularly over the decade Winfield was in The Bronx. And they kept him suspended through 1993, and the Yankees were run by "the baseball people" during that time.  I think if one were to ask even Steinbrenner himself, he would agree that the suspension was for the best, and surely turned out for the best.  During that time, the Yankees drafted and/or developed and did not trade away for the momentary advantage a rent-a-free-agent might deliver:  Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettite, Jorge Posada, and Derek Jeter (to name the more prominent players).  Of them, two are locks for the Hall of Fame (Jeter and Rivera), and Posada and Williams have an outside chance.  

And they made some pretty good trades, too:  Roberto Kelly for Paul O'Neill, Steve Sax for Bob Wickman and others (Wickman being a key relief pitcher in their 96 Series season and a part of the trade that brought Graeme Lloyd -even more important to the '96 team - to the Yankees.)

And they picked up Wade Boggs as a free agent - one of the dumber moves in Red Sox history was letting him go.

More to the point, those players formed the core of a team that went to the playoffs for 13 straight years and won it all in 4.

I recall one marathon twelve-hour session of [sexual] passion many years ago now. It was only afterwards that I realized I had barely had a single trace of an analytic thought for the longest period I could then remember.