If I Had a Penny for Every Headline...

Once again, we're seeing a flurry of stories about whether we really need pennies, this time based on reports that it actually costs more than a cent to mint a penny. There seems to be one ironclad rule of reporting this story or publishing editorials about it: Headlines must include bad puns. To wit:

• Do Pennies Still Make Sense? (Washington Post)
• A Penny Saved Could Become a Penny Spurned (USA Today)
• Cents-Less To Keep The Penny? (Student-Operated Press)
• Is It Time for the U.S. to Become Penniless? (Montgomery Advertiser)
• Do Pennies Make Cents? (Chicago Daily Herald)
• How to Deal With Change (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
• Penny For Your Thoughts on the Penny (WTOP Radio)
• Penny-Foolish? (Naperville Sun)