Contrary to popular belief, drunken Times editors do not choose letters to the editor for publication based on which ones they have yet to stain with drooled droplets of Yellow Tail. That would require too much thought and, instead, the paper inadvertently printed a slew of letters written by a bunch of gifted high school students at Duke University's summer program. The Times published 17 letters from one classroom of prodigious summer school freaks, many of which wrote under pseudonyms or from disguised points of origin. The Times' Thomas Feyer, who is bestowed with the torture of editing the Letters page, is not amused and is (predictably) reducing the teens to a mini-army of Dan Rathers. But really, is it that surprising that a gang adolescents with mastery of multisyllabic words could take down the letter system? It's not like that page is the Death Star of ponderous prose.
Homework To The Editor [New Yorker]

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