Reading Comprehension

    Maybe I've gotten lazy, but I'm tired of struggling to understand what I read. Double negatives are challenge enough, but a piece of cake compared to the headline that reads:  "High court judge halts block on ban."   Now if I were teaching composition or working as editor, both jobs which I've held, I would encourage the writer to write, oh, maybe:  "High court judge upholds ban."  The headline of course is never meant to tell the whole story.  That's what the article is for. But  neither should the headline have potential readers scratching their heads trying to decipher what they're going to read about.