Looks like the New York Times is rippin’ off its kissin’ cousin, the Boston Globe.
Or maybe it’s the other way around.
Monday’s Globe piece about Green Mountain College being oxymarooned:
Lou the ox is quietly euthanized at Vt. college
Injured animal put down, buried in early morning; second ox’s fate undertermined
The veterinarian came before dawn, and Lou the ox was quietly euthanized.
The decision by the small liberal arts college in Vermont in early October to slaughter its beloved pair of oxen and serve their meat in the campus dining hall had sparked worldwide outrage . . .
Read the rest at IGTLTDT.