THIS MONTH'S OVERWROUGHT JOURNALISM AWARD...

...goes to the New York Times reporter who compared last week's Black Friday Wal-Mart trampling death to the Spanish Civil War:

A Shopping Guernica Captures the Moment

Obviously ridiculous - unless my experience of having a new checkout line at Target open just as I was rolling up to it can be compared to Gandalf arriving with the Riders of Rohan just in time at the Battle of Helm's Deep.