While I know it’s fairly well-known that geeks and jocks don’t really get along, the body shots the geeks get to deliver once they leave the emotionally-stunting clutches of high school never cease to amuse me. And so I offer, as a palate cleanser (after my previous long-winded and overly earnest rant), a screenshot from a couple of days ago:
Do I think it was not lost on CNN’s online editor that the wording of this headline makes it sound as though there has been study showing a link between brain damage and athletic prowess? Nope. Do I think CNN’s online editor might have received a few wedgies in his day? Maybe.