Our special "You be the Editor" version of our weekly Crunks generated many responses. In the end, the number of votes for keeping the new version of our site description were equal to the number that advocate putting the comma back.
What are we to do? Nothing. Well, not exactly nothing.
What we mean to say is that we will leave the altered description in place and hereby declare that this site will attempt to adhere to AP style. Our copy of "Strunk & White" tells us otherwise, but we are throwing our lot in with the AP, even though they certainly aren’t perfect. Neither, we should say, is Lynne Truss, the author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves." Just read Louis Menard’s smack down of the book in this The New Yorker article. (He weighs in on the serial comma debate in the first paragraph. It seems he’d like us to put the comma back. No dice.)
Apologies to those who object to our decision. Please keep reading and pointing out our mistakes. The site just isn’t the same without them — and you.
