Today we defer to an anonymous Crikey reader who says what we’ve all been thinking:

During the season when many people choose to take annual leave, newspapers are limping along with a small very frame of reference. The global economic crisis has been postponed until March, the federal and state governments’ continuing failures on the trifling matter of the planet is of no concern, there’s something happening in the Middle East, a celebrity was seen somewhere recently and we are apparently all fascinated by tennis and cricket.

Here follows just some of the Swiftian headlines produced in the last few days by the kindergarten of the air:

Stiff sentence for mast-rbator — Daily Telegraph

P-rn moguls’ limp bail-out plea — The SMH

You Siddle Beauty — The Age

Sizzling Peter Siddle catches fire — The Australian

Blazing Siddle rips through Proteas — Melbourne Herald Sun

Sizzling Siddle and judicious Johnson are the men for the future — The Age

Sexy Serb Strikes. Training Pays Off For Ana Ivanovic. — Brisbane Courier Male