Apophenia

Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. Consider the following headlines, appearing currently on my news aggregator:

1) Al Qaeda bomb plot was foiled by double agent
2) North Carolina voters approve same-sex marriage ban
3) 'Where the Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies
4) Anger at austerity, immigration feeds far right's rise in Europe
5) In Greece, coalition government proves elusive amid impasse

 Some possible things we might draw from these headlines:

1) The human condition is a miserable, fearful one, and the only certainty in life is death.
2) Violence abounds in the world.
3) The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

 Further connections are left as an exercise for the reader.