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When I was a young newspaper reporter many moons ago, my editors would occasionally send me out to do a story on deadline to fill space. Once, I wrote about how one could finally get a parking space in downtown Princeton, NJ, because it was summer time. Another time, about a kindly older gentleman whose service to his church including giving the church fence a fresh paint job.
Looks like some NYT editor needed a space-filler today.I'll take that older guy any day and the mood piece over ANYTHING about that "Mars vs. Venus" crap. That it's based around that jacka$$ in the White House and his mangling of the English language just makes it worse...