Acts of Volition

I’ve posted here before about how the randomness and lack of context of the headlines on CNN.com often have disturbing/hilarious result. On any given day, the list of “Top Stories” headlines can almost always make me laugh out loud.

Today was no exception. Early today, one of the headlines read:

Mammoth skull found in a gravel pit

A few hours later, during which someone at CNN must have noticed the unindended brilliance of this headline, it was updated to the more accurate, but less hilarious:

Skull of mammoth found in a gravel pit

In case you are actually interested in the mammoth skull, you can check out the story and get a bonus “artists rendition of a mammoth”.