By Robert Schlesinger
(Cross-posted at SIMP.)
Today’s must-read newspaper story is the New York Times front-pager on the impromptu wiffle ball field of dreams some teenagers built in Greenwich, Ct.
As is typical in today’s society, lawyers, politicians and outraged neighbors, quickly got involved. But reporter Peter Applebome does a splendid job of balancing the summer idyll side of the story with real-world practicalities that can be written off as, see above, typical of today’s society. The lawyers, pols and neighbors actually have legitimate points and Applebome gives everyone their due.
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Another must read in the Times…Timothy Egan’s piece on death and daring on the slopes of Denali – and the dozens of often eloquent responses from readers. Of course, dead is dead and the worms crawl in, so it doesn’t really matter how you go, does it?