It's 7 o'clock in the morning.  I am lying on the couch, tired and hung-over.  My body is somehow able to produce the slightest, grumbling chuckle from reading the front-page article from nytimes.com, "Economy Hammered by Toxic Blend of Ailments."  The first paragraph reads,

"Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once.  People are buying less, but most things are costing more.  Mortgage rates are rising, the dollar is falling and prices of key commodities like oil are leaping from one record high to the next."

That's not the funny part.  Next to this serious and bold, but ever so true statement--comprised of well-written sentences and accurate punctuation--is an advertisement from nytimes.com/realestate:  "What you get for...$1 million" (in reference to the picture above).

I like juxtapositions.  I think this one is great.