Wednesday, 9/21/11

The corrections for the New York Times today seem rather bland today. They explained how they were mistaken and how the nation of Latvia became independent in1940 and not after World War II. I was always lead to believe that the corrections page of the newspaper was filled with gigantic errors and reputation destroying typos.  So far what I’ve seen is that what mistakes are made are usually small and relatively harmless. It logical I guess, I doubt a newspaper could stay in business if it constantly made mistakes on the scale I imaged it.

The front page seems more cheerful than usual, with pictures of recruiting in a gay pride center, a Russian ballerina, and a squid looking for love.  It’s a nice change of pace from the normal scenes of violence and death they’ve been showing lately.

I thought the article on the Marines recruiting at a gay center in Tulsa. They only received a few applicants, but the fact they were able to recruit openly gay men and women without any major problems. I found that comforting after years of hearing people say that ending “don’t ask, don’t tell” would immediately send the military into chaos.

I checked up on the squid article for grins, but it actually turned out to be a really go article. He presented the science in an easy to understand way and managed to get the main points of the story, (why do squid reproduce like this, what other species employ similar behavior, ETC). The author wrote the article in a clear and well informed manner, which I imagine is hard to do on a subject that would leave the many people snickering uncontrollably.