Guess We Shouldn’t Have Fired The Spellchecker…

I’m not sure if that last word up there is real, but regardless, you may or may not have heard that the folks over at the Washington Times had to let some people go due to financial difficulties.  I don’t want to engage in too much schadenfreude, but apparently it’s already had an impact on the quality of their paper:

I believe it's spelled "Newark"

Why I Hate the Washington Times

I’ll let this picture with my drawn in comments speak for me:

Insinuation at its clumsiest!

Some Wisdom From the Atlantic

I am still going through the lists of bests from 2009 and predictions from 2010, but I wanted to share my favorite so far.  It’s from The Atlantic, and while most lists rely on what people got right, or should have paid attention to, this list is the magazine’s admission of the highlights of what it got wrong.  Great reading (I personally love Kaplan’s assessment of his own work–”My scenario was wrong, and that’s all there is to it.”) and a nice dose of humility from the media.