The latest issue of Brown Alumni Magazine (BAM!) contains a long and appropriately adoring profile of our brilliant, witty, and dashingly handsome leader, Chip Giller. My only beef with the piece is this bit:

The humor is most visibly expressed in its headlines; when the Bush administration tried to undermine European governments’ efforts to test the public-health impact of industrial chemicals, Grist titled its story "No Chemical Left Behind."

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Um, exsqueeze me, but that is one of our least funny headlines ever. The writer couldn’t find anything better than that?

For future writers of adoring profiles, may I suggest the stone classic Cattle Star Redactica.

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