Well, That’s All Right Then!

The New York Times is a funny newspaper. On the big issues, it’s awful: unreliable, biased, arrogant, untrustworthy. But when it comes to things that don’t matter, no one is more scrupulous than the editors of the Times. That’s one of the reasons why it’s fun to cruise the paper’s Corrections section. This one from tomorrow’s paper made me laugh:

An article last Sunday about

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