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Hello! I've been absent all week, too. Grueling but successful week behind me. There were several 12 hr. days. I was so wasted last night I thought I might fall asleep in the elevator on the way to my room from the parking garage.

Life looks better now that I'm home.

Have you seen this journalism gem? (From Andrew Sullivan)
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A lovely politically correct editing slip marred AN OPERA REVIEW in the Los Angeles Times recently.

The original sentence read that Richard Strauss' operatic epic, "Die Frau Ohne Schatten," was "an incomparably glorious and goofy pro-life paean..." Fair enough.

But you can't have the epithet "pro-life" in the Los Angeles Times. So the sentence was changed [by an editor] to "an incomparably glorious and goofy anti-abortion paean..." There is no reference to abortion in the opera.

The paper was therefore forced to run not one but two corrections on February 25. The writer rightly insisted that the paper exonerate him personally from the idiocy.
[The first correction simply noted the error. The second correction made it (somewhat) clear that the editor was at fault, not the writer.]

It reminds me of the occasion when a newspaper decided to remove all usage of the word "black" from its copy, when referring to African-Americans. it was deemed too offensive a term. Everything was fine until some tired copy-editor lazily edited an economics column. Suddenly, the federal budget moved from red ink "into the African-American."
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How comforting to think these are the same people who have decided we can't handle images of 9/11...might make us hate somebody, ya know.

Hey Gran, I been wantin' to talk to ya. I'll freepmail you sometime this weekend.

ALL: Here's a fantastic article from MS. Noonan: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

Don't miss this one!