Jon, you are too kind.

The AP’s new dual-zone ledes doesn’t just smuggle opinions into hard news, it smuggles painfully dopey opinions. Terror attacks occur “almost as if scripted?” How about exactly as scripted so as to meet any hopeful development with the impression of futility? This is not a difficult concept to grasp, but it eludes the AP.

Anyway, let me tell you about the time John ran over himself with his car…