"The following blog is rated..."

Which is actually good to know. I try to keep the public (i.e. unlocked, the thing apparently doesn't view locked posts) portions of this journal suitable for anyone who chances across it...at least, insofar as language goes. I suppose Doctor Who reviews and silly comics links aren't suitable for all audiences....

thanks for the tip, bully!

Perhaps the headline should be...

CNN Editors unaware of the difference between words "ancestor" and "descendant"

Man, this kind of thing really gets my goat. I know the internet's a fast moving place, 24 hour news cycle and all that, but this is really shoddy editorial work.

UPDATE: Sent a comment to cnn.com. I'll post any reply they send me. (No, I don't remember exactly what I said in the comment, although I did end it with the hope that their fact checking was better than their headline writing. Heh.)

UPDATE THE SECOND: CNN has fixed the mistake. For the record, the original headline was "Study: House cat ancestor of Middle Eastern wildcat." It has now been changed to "Study: Housecat descendant of Middle Eastern wildcat."

I like to think that I might have had something to do with that...li'l old me, influencing the content provided by a multimillion dollar corporation.... ;-)