Tackling the Tough Topics in W

From W, November:

Male Pattern Badness

Shags, spikes, feathers, flips—an epidemic of bad haircuts is afflicting modern men.

Oh, so the lousy hairstyles of Owen Wilson and Nick Lachey are symptomatic of an epidemic.  Wonder if the World Health Organization is devoting any resources to the battle against bad hair?   

Before this article opened our eyes, we naively thought epidemics had to be serious. Or life-threatening.  Or, at the very least, interesting. (We’ve racked our brains on this one, but we honestly can’t think of anything that intrigues us less than the blond Wilson’s hair, except maybe Nick Lachey’s hair.)

Fortunately, W’s intrepid journalism has forced us to step outside the cozy little bubble we inhabit.  We can hardly believe that, until we read this story, we thought the prevailing epidemic was the rapidly encroaching trend of magazines publishing overly dramatic articles on topics of no importance to anyone.