I've always been bad at remembering formatting while writing - which titles get italics, which get quotation marks, which get underlines. You know, MLA stuff.

If you yourself know the right way to do things, you'll probably notice a whole host of errors and inconsistencies in my writing here. Most of the time I'm too rushed to even google for the correct answer. Generally I just guess.

(Yes, the large gasp you just heard is my English teacher wife, cousin, brother, mother and grandmother collectively freaking out. Shoot - even me - I taught high school Freshmen English for four months last year. I'm even ashamed at my laziness. Just thank goodness we have spel chek, or this would be really difficult to read.)

In college, I always had a reference sheet tacked up on the corkboard near my desk. That, and my well-worn copy of the MLA Style Guide. (Or would that be MLA Style Guide??)

Anyway, since I'm so bad at it, formatting in the real world always catches my eye. Pretty much I'm just comparing this writing here to the big kids at Time Magazine. (Time Magazine? TIME Magazine??)

Which is why last week I was aghast at a possible error in that respected newsweekly.

Last week, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates called the largest and most circulated newspaper in the District of Columbia "the Washington Post". I always figured it should be The Washington Post or at least the Washington Post.

Oddly, when you look his article up on the web the formatting is gone altogether, which maybe further proves the formatting doesn't matter on the internet? Luckily it's still a good article. Check out "Obama and the Myth of the Black Messiah".

But this is Time Magazine - they don't make mistakes, do they?

Probably not.

Needless to say this week's Michael Kinsley article "How Many Blogs Does the World Need?" calls that large and very highly circulated newspaper in the District of Columbia "the Washington Post" again.

Weird. Did we just witness a huge shift in formatting? Do I still have my Time Magazine from two weeks ago to compare? Does this even matter to anyone else?