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The Wall Street Journal is an excellent newspaper. It is also something of a grouch. An entertaining, well-informed, occasionally terrifying grouch--the kind of grouch who badgers children about the poor quality of kites these days--but a grouch nonetheless. Here is a partial list of the people, inanimate objects and broad societal trends the paper took umbrage at this week:
People who text 'I'm late'
European demilitarization
Employee background checks
Barack Obama's taste in music
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Ray Gustini is the author of Lucky Town, a forthcoming book about sports in Washington, D.C. He is a former staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.