From AP, by way of the Comcast.net news service, comes this provocative story:

Did iPods Cause a Crime Wave?

Through 800 (or so) words of text, we read of the horrors of technology and the lust for technology: “They argue that the tantalizing gadgets are perhaps the main reason U.S. violent crime rose in 2005 and 2006 after declining every year since 1991....”

At the end of the article (pretty much guaranteed to be after the jump in a printed version of this story), we see this quote: “But to suggest that that’s driving the crime numbers in any major way, I don’t think so.”

I guess having a story whose entire body consisted of “No” would have been hard to explain in the budget.