Seattle: Stupid about big things, clever about little things

On the “Stupid About Big Things” side of the ledger, you get this brilliance from a school official:

“We are, in fact, increasing rigor,”

By this, he means, in part that the district upped the ante for graduation about a year ago when it started counting an E (failing) grade when calculating grade-point averages, which it hadn’t done for seven years.

On the “Clever in Little Things” (like politics) you get this undeniably ingenious headline about the emergence of wingnuts as a dominant force in what used to be called “conservatism”:

“GOP frets it’s too surly with the fringe on top.”

That ranks right up there with some of Dawn Eden’s best work, though nothing will ever truly equal her magnificent headline to the story of the cop injured by an exploding toilet:

“Hurt in the Line of Doody”.