Occasionally I like to make fun of CNN.com.  Usually when they make typos, but also if they post silly-looking articles.  So I was happy to see this right on the frontpage of the site:

Shakespeare ebonics?

Does that sentence make any sense whatsoever?  I get what they’re trying to do but it just looks stupid.  It looks like stupid, bad English.  I mean, let’s say they conjugated “to be” in this sentence.  Then it becomes “Is portrait being or not being only of Shakespeare?” Which quite frankly sounds like something I would read in a Russian spam e-mail.

Again, I get the implications, but it just doesn’t work, CNN.com.  Sorry.  And judging from this picture you appear to be making Shaksey blush a little bit.

Actually, you know what’s weird?

SHAKESPEARE LOOKS KINDA LIKE TIM ROTH!  Especially the eyes.  Whoa.