Surprisingly sane headline of the week:Joan Kennedy's Problems with Plastic

Publication: Weekly World News (via the Sun)
Date: 7 February 2011

A couple of headlines out of time sequence today because I didn't see last week's Sun until today. The Weekly World News, the home of Bat Boy and aliens and two-headed bigfoots (bigfeet?) getting shot on the White House lawn, goes with a completely verifiable headline that would be right at home in the Globe or the low rent Examiner. In fact, the low rent Examiner had this story as part of a Problems With Plastic Alert™ anthology back last September.

Joan Kennedy looks like hell.

If we measure bad plastic surgery as distance from Mickey Rourke, Joan Kennedy may actually be beyond the Mickster. I judge her to be about somewhere between 105% and 110% on the Rourke Rubber Mask scale, also written as RRM 1.05 and RRM 1.1.

Problems With Plastic Alert™:bad surgery anthology

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 27 September 2010

The low rent Examiner spends most of the cover on pictures of women who look awful after plastic surgery. The women on the cover are Mary Tyler Moore, Tanya Tucker, Joan Kennedy, Heather Locklear and Loni Anderson.

And the camera noses in to the tears on her face:Joan Kennedy breaks down

Publication: Globe
Date: 13 September 2010

As often happens, the Examiner and Globe have been playing ping-pong with a story about a politician, this time a dead one. The last insult to injury move is that Joan Kennedy, Teddy's former wife, broke down on the first anniversary of Teddy's death.

Stay classy, Globe.