Sunday, October 01, 2006

Am I Reading The Onion or The NYT?

Every once in a while, one comes across an article that sparks this question. NYT's real estate section had a piece this morning that verges on Onion territory. The subject is the pickiness of children in real estate, and their tendency to make mean, hurtful comments about the inferior properties of others. Let's go to the article: "Children, once assumed to be oblivious to the nuances of real estate, now know what is prized and what is not, and often feel free to comment on what they observe." The best, however, is the caption on the accompanying photo: "Henry Friedman took his classmates on a house tour." Glad to now that's part of the news that's fit to print.

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