Great Moments In Headline Writing

May 13, 2002: The NYT uses a headline that has nothing to do with the story below except "High Court".

High Court Partially Upholds Adult Business Zoning Law

This is about the "Childrens Online Protection Act" -- i.e., an internet porn law. (I'm dying to make a pun here. It's the COPAcaBANa! Ha!) There's no zoning involved here. The justices, by the usual 5-4, said that the use of community standards doesn't make the law unconstitutional. Which is stupid, since the Internet is everywhere and almost anything is offensive in some community, but that never bothered the Ninoites. I'm disappointed in Clarence Thomas, really.

Anyway, the government won't be able to put the law into effect yet, because there are other problems. I think it will eventually be shot down.