Best NYT headline of the day: “In Beach Enclave, Affluent Are Split Over Effluent.” It’s the “Headless Body in Topless Bar” for coastal elites!

However, that triumph is offset by this clunker, which ran over a typically dreary editorial: “Gunfight at the S-Chip Corral.” Ugh.

Update 9/25 5:00 PM: ABC News has an especially inane headline on air travel: “Could Cranky Passengers Become Extinct?” Answer: No.

Update 9/26 8:55 AM: McClatchy DC gets snarky:

Bush astounds activists, supports human rights

Also, like TNR’s Michelle Cottle, I’m a little disturbed by the email (PDF) from Bill Clinton to Hillary’s list with the subject line “You, me, a TV, and a bowl of chips.” Yikes! Not sure I want to know what that means — and I say that as a hater of the spammish subjects that most campaigns use (sample from Obama: “RE: This is real”).