Today's Times

Our love of certain sections of the New York Times has been well-documented elsewhere (c.f. somewhere the post on the Frugal Traveler). But an article in today's N.Y. / Region section takes the proverbial cake: "Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location" praises a marketing writer's use of this punctuation mark in a subway ad about not leaving your used newspaper lying around by, in all seriousness, quoting a New Yorker staff writer, a Berkeley professor, Noam Chomsky, and a bestselling grammar maven (it also manages to squeeze in some praise for the public school system and mentions David Berkowitz, but that's another story).

We love it when the Gray Lady goes quirky.