Worst Lede of the Decade: Finalist

From the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial on the Virginia Tech killings:

April is, indeed, the cruelest month, the month that comes straight out of T.S. Eliot's wasteland of useless carnage and lost hope; at least for American students in this last decade. For it is the month when the shootings happen.

What are the words that clutch, what policy proposals grow out of this lettered rubbish? Find out here, if you can stand to read more.

[Via Tim Cavanaugh.]