Headlines mean so much to a newspaper as for the most part people scan the heds and the pictures and read the captions on the photos before they dive into the stories.

Most people don’t realize that the writers rarely write the headlines, that duty goes to the Copy Editors. This morning our copy desk, for the second year in a row, won the top team headline prize from the American Copy Editors Society.

Here are some of their award-winning headlines:

Dave Bowman

In the
world
of tag,
he’s it
Street artist Mister Cartoon has found his scrawl space: movie
billboards, custom cars, video games. He gives them all ‘cred.’

Blake Hennon

The tie that binds them
Players from 1968’s Harvard-Yale classic, with its
29-29 final score, reminisce in a winning documentary.

Paul Ybarrondo

Two wings and a prayer
All 155 on board survive as jet loses power, lands in Hudson River

Laura Dominick

Nice
work if
you can
avoid it
The ‘funemployed’ — jobless, mostly single folks in their 20s and 30s — are opting to hit the beach instead of punch the clock.

Jennifer Karmon

Group of 20 summit may
give Obama 19 headaches

Dave Bowman

Pageant rocked on its high heels
Miss California USA organizers say Carrie Prejean
hijacked the event to spread her views on marriage.

Jennifer Karmon

Obama
backs
off to
move
ahead
His concession on a public insurance option boosts
the chances for his overall healthcare effort.

Dave Bowman

A circuit
bard for
Silicon
Valley
Computerese isn’t the only language in the capital of high tech.
Today, the ‘Hollywood for engineers’ unveils its first poet laureate.

Laura Dominick

Nevada is checking under the mattress for cash
A lawmaker wants to legalize brothels in Reno and Las Vegas.

Kevin Leung

Thanks, see you earlier, Leno says

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id nominate kristin pony for supreme court justice

why not.

you know why the economy is coming back? cuz the kids like obama. they feel part of the process. the president tweets. you know what that means to young people?

plus he was born in kenya. they love that the most.

so here you have this guy. might be good, might be bad, but the kids are suddenly interested in government and politics. so the other day when the president was indoctrinating the school children and people were all, omg thats terrible, the young people were like what IS it about this black man?

and when he spoke he said hey everyone lets turn around this economy

and they ran out and threw all their money into the stock market, and now look at it.

so what you do is you appoint someone almost exactly like kristin to the supreme court

and you tell me that the kids wouldnt instantly be in to blind justice.

and start to be good. and produce quality music.

and maybe then she’d bring back her blog

and now that i have them again

and you in my life

and a great camera

i can now die peacefully in my sleep.

hell awaits, true, but

AS IF!

yesterday the LAPD honored one of their own who had fallen in Afghanistan. apparently the 20 yr veteran was in a vehicle like this when it ran over an IED and the explosion killed him.

the marine who drove this vehicle up from oceanside said that its not a tank, that its a light armored reconnaissance vehicle. he says it weighs 14 tons and can go 80 mph. i said man you must have gotten here in an hour. he said, “no 5 hours, we went during rush hour.”

since i dont know squat about military stuff, i just said, “cool grenade launchers” and thanked him for protecting america.

since it was a funeral it meant that you could park in the streets. but only if youre a cop.

and they said it wouldnt last.

brand x is motoring away and today they celebrate their first anniversary.

so proud of the young women and men who put together this weekly celebration of insightful features, profiles, news, and reviews that reach a slightly younger demographic than our flagship paper.

if only you knew how hard these folk work.

lemme put it this way, lets say its 9pm. lets say most of the building is gone. lets say youre walking through the second floor. there will be a Brand Xer or two plugging away. it might be Ali (above), it might be Deb, it might be Alex… you get the point

lemme put it another way. lets say its 6am. odds are Richard is blogging away for the blog. well before the dawns early light. well before yours truly even awakes. and sometimes he’s rockin before that time.

which all makes it not one bit surprising that their content is so solid and their success is consistent and sure. i heart them all.

the busblog approves of this birthday.

i disagree with almost everything that johnny rotten sings about. but hes still a role model.

still a hero. still a standard by which i want to live up with. isnt that weird?

shouldnt you wanna be the opposite of who you disagree with?

PiL gave an unremarkable, uninspired show last night at the unispireable Club Nokia.

the place wasnt packed. the crowd was soft. there were no mohawks, no slam dancing,

very few signs of punk rock.

in fact in the middle of the show, in the Pit, we were asked by a gentleman to keep it down because our talking was disturbing him listening to the show.

i gave him a look that should have said “if my talking is ruining your punk rock, then your punk rock is limp cuz im not even talking that loudly.”

but we took his advice and adjourned to the back of the “club” and hung out at the bar. and talked more.

it was a boring show and anyone who chooses this weekend to skip Jay-Z and “rock” to PiL is in for a sorry let down. the ship has sailed. the revolution is over.

the most dangerous band in the world has lost their danger.

johnny is clearly happy, which we all know is the end of art.

which is ok, cuz i was able to have some really good conversations, unmolested.

if id known id had done something more interesting with my look.

anyways, hef was great, and said he thought it’s a cop out when celebs go to rehab after they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

who knew the playboy founder was such a romantic And homebody?

anyways, know one thing i love about this guy? if you notice on the right hand side you’ll see this big giant bust of one of his former playmate girlfriends Barbie Benton. then theres pics of his previous gfs (kendra, bridget and holly) and his wife. the man has no problem celebrating current and former loves.

more over at the Ministry

who doesnt love values?

ever think about your life and say, what happened to it? where did my lust of knowledge go? where did my undying love for mankind go? where did my enthusiasm to discover the unknown go?

ever come home, let the dog out, get the evening paper from the doorstep, and think “i just wanna take a nap”? but you dont mean nap. you mean a long walk except no one would cross your path on this walk. it would just be a stroll through a new suburb, too new for trees. too new for sidewalks. too new for anyone to know each other so you can pretend like you live at the end of the street. but you dont.

youre just napping. and walking.

with your newspaper. and pipe. and vneck sweater.

the double down makes you hallucinate. it makes you believe in aliens. it does something to your blood that makes you hyper inside and squirrelly outside. mine made me wanna punch someone. not in a mean way, in a loving way like *pow* you should take a bite outta this thing.

you have to pace yrself when you double down. cuz the grease can create an imbalance. not to mention the salt. the whole thing is delicious of course because of the “if it tastes good its bad for you” theorem, which gets supersized in this example and then poured all down your shirt.

when you eat your first double down you say, ok it would be nice to have some bread on this. then you say oh hi theres sauce in here. where did that come from?

then you say, omg cheese too? and finally, wait, Bacon?

its more than a party in your mouth, its a freakin disco dance with your neighbor flipping the lights on and off to the music: YES ITS STUPID BUT IF YOU GO WITH IT IS FUN FUN FUN!

kfc’s chicken somehow remains the star of the show despite all the distractions. the seven herbs and spices have seen fads come and go and hang in there during the doubling of downs. theres no doubt this is ridiculous but so were ice cream sundaes when Al Gore first introduced them. so was letting your kid sit on your lap and play air traffic controller that one day at work in the air traffic control room, so was Twitter. but we learned to embrace those oddities and now look at how much better our lives are.

the line for this treat was so long i had to get out of my beloved automobile and enter the establishment, and when i took it home, i unwrapped it, considered placing it on a plate, and sank my teeth into it.

my life has changed