After reading (a) that the Baltimore Sun laid off most of its senior editors and (b) Kathy's fascinating link, I cannot help but note:

So far, the young man has only performed the surgery on dummies but has managed to fascinate the medical community enough to peak the interests of seasoned surgeons.

Pique! Not Peak! Aww, fuck it, who needs editors.

Pique! Not Peak! Aww, fuck it, who needs editors.

I'm right there with you. I think I snarled when I read "peak."

Yeah, add me to the snarling contingent.

I still remember the exact moment I realized that certain publishers had gotten rid of their proofreading departments--it was when I started seeing "it's" for "its" in multiple books by the same company.

see, people should mark up those books/papers in red and send them back to the publishers.

forget tea parties, we can have massive EDIT INS.

I saw some news footage of the National Guard in Ohio guarding the Tamiflu stock in "an undisclosed location."

Why does Dick Cheney need all that Tamiflu?

I saw some news footage of the National Guard in Ohio guarding the Tamiflu stock in "an undisclosed location."

Oh good lord. Yeah, THAT won't add to the unnecessary fear-mongering.

Of course she's factually wrong in every possible way. You don't suppose someone on her staff is giving her this stuff and then cracking his or her shit up watching CSPAN?

But the tv news reports aren't correcting her, are they? It could be a disinformation campaign.

forget tea parties, we can have massive EDIT INS.

Can we have tea while we edit?

But the tv news reports aren't correcting her, are they?

I haven't really seen it reported anyplace that wasn't mocking her.