Recommended reading

A couple of articles that may be of interest:

The first shows that at least I'm not alone in being bugged by the lack of a hyphen in the movie title "The 40 Year-Old Virgin."

The second talks about how the media's efforts to be "balanced" can actually create a skewed perception of reality. The column focuses on intelligent design, but the same could be said about most political coverage or of the debate about global warming, in which the large majority of scientists agree on it, but a small group of fringe scientists (and the current administration) don't. Because the media just recites a "he said, she said" of various groups' causes without any attempt to examine the validity of the statements, readers are given the belief that both sides are equally valid, which is not always the case.