Have you ever read something in the newspaper that makes you say, “Wait — say what?” You’ve just come across something that makes no sense.  Then you go back and read it again — and sometimes again and again. For instance … One day last week, my local newspaper, the Las Vegas Review Journal, had a picture with the caption: “the defendant enters the courtroom Friday before pleading guilty to murdering the victim at the Regional Justice Center” (which is the high-flautin’ name for the courthouse). Say What?  He murdered her at courthouse? Wasn’t anyone around to stop him? Oh, wait on a subsequent reading I realized they meant that he pled guilty at the courthouse to the murder. Oh, okay. I wonder if anyone actually proof-reads these things. Of course, a newspaper has a quick turn-around so it’s not like a book or manuscript where someone can go through and take a lot of time… Read More »