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September 30, 2008
Bad copy-editing in our time.
Today's unworthy NY Times subheadline:
Those mowers are awfully crafty to avoid changing the natural fucking color of grass.
It gets worse—this is from the article itself:
Baseball parks have long been identified by architectural touches, from arching facades to ivy-covered walls. These days, they are widely recognized by grass, cropped into distinctive, green-hued designs using the everyday tools of mowers, rollers and other grass-bending gadgets.
"Grass-bending gadgets"? Can we now look forward to a feature about bananas being the elongated yellow fruit of choice among chimpanzees?
