Choice Quotes...

At the moment I get paid to, amongst other things, read the newspaper. On my CV, it is known as "Media Monitoring"... Against all odds, this has taken all the fun out of what was once amongst my favourite leisure activities. But when you consider that the following is considered fit for print in Taiwanese newspapers (or at least the English-language ones), my disillusionment may be less surprising:

[the article compares several frontrunners for a major political party's presidential ticket in 2008]

On the other hand, [Presidential nomination contender] Hsieh has some red
herrings in the closet.

Red herrings in the closet - as well as mangling two metaphors that are overused enough as it is, it is simply not hygienic to keep fish in unrefrigerated spaces.

Or, "another nail in the coffin" of the English language perhaps?