On a recent Intelligence Squared US debate on NPR, Forbes made the exact same "feet in a mile, minutes in an hour, etc" argument against the dollar.

I second Scratch. It is fun, easy, and powerful. I recently got a group of 3rd-5th graders playing with it in an hour and a half, as well as mentoring a 6th grade student who made a fun little fishing game in an afternoon. I'm working on a bowling game while debugging some of the advanced features of my Portal inspired game.

Scratch!

Is taking a "wallop to" something a good thing or a bad thing? I guess that's one way to make sure we read the story is to have the headline make no sense...