COFFEE SHOP PIONEER
This morning's New York Times included a column heading that read: A coffee shop pioneer murdered. More than two decades later his wife and her brother found guilty. As intriguing as this was, It was the phrase "coffee shop pioneer" that really captured my imagination. I never fail to be amused by both the New York and Los Angeles Times' attempts to make provocative something that is entirely mundane. I assume the editors of these papers maintain a list of superlative labels to draw from which includes pre-revolutionary brew master, trail blazing philatelist, swashbuckling entomologist, etc. With newspapers I recommend reading only the headlines as one's imagination nearly always takes one to a better place than the actual story. A perfect example was another of this mornings headlines: Family finds insensitive a streaming video from doctor informing man he has only days to live I gathered from this that the family would have preferred