Sunday January 13, 2002

This is the actual lede on an Associated Press story posted today: "President Bush fainted briefly in the White House residence Sunday after choking on a pretzel while watching a National Football League playoff game on television, White House physician Dr. Richard Tubb said."

The folks over at MetaFilter have been having a field day with this one, too: "We will find the people who manufactured these pretzels. We will find them, and smoke 'em out of their pretzel factories and also any countries harboring these rogue pretzel factories. We will bring these pretzel evildoers to justice."