Exhibit A:

This morning, an eight-year-old second-grader was arrested, put in handcuffs, and taken to jail for punching his teacher. The story is here. The headline for it, on news aggregation site Fark:

Grandmother of the year says that if second-grade teacher can’t take a punch to the face from her eight-year-old grandson, she should find different work.

Exhibit B:

Larry Langford, Mayor, issued a proclamation Tuesday on behalf of the City of Birmingham, Alabama. People often wonder why Alabama has a reputation for having a somewhat illiterate population; wonder no more. You can read the proclamation here, but the first paragraph should suffice by example (all typography is precisely reproduced):

“The City of Birmingham Like the City of Nineveh has experienced violence and murder that pails in comparison to the City of Nineveh of the Old testament, Book of Jonah; and has become the fourth violent city per capital in the United States of America; and…”

Exhibit C:

Proving that insanity isn’t purely an American phenomenon, the British Treasury recently decided to update the image of one of its offices by giving the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) a new logo. The logo, a simple, geometrically regular merging of the letters O, G, and C, looks innocuous enough until one rotates it ninety degrees clockwise.

A spokesman for the office, who wisely declined to be identified, said, “…it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”