Daily headline gremlin detector

Chud of the Day

A dumb but honest machine that scans headlines, counts repeated bad-news mentions, and picks one name.

Today's Pick

Looking through the mess...

How It Works

1. Pull headlines from a small basket of RSS feeds.

2. Extract capitalized person-like names from those headlines.

3. Add points for words like charged, fraud, scandal, abuse, and corruption.

4. Reward names that appear across multiple sources and multiple headlines.

5. Show the top score and the receipts.