The morning mail brings me a new issue of The Economist, whose news roundup begins:
Two bombs went off in Istanbul on November 20th . . . .
. . making me wonder where it was printed.
Certain other weeklies would have said “Thursday” rather than “November 20”. Used to drive me nuts wondering which Thursday they meant.
Further down:
Kathleen Blanco [of Louisiana] . . . becomes the first ever female governor in America’s “Deep South”.
That can’t be right. Wasn’t it once common for wives to succeed their husbands as governor when the latter could not seek another consecutive term? Wallace of Alabama comes to mind. [2007: Looks like I overestimated the frequency of the phenomenon.]