Something New… 

Here’s something new I’m thinking of adding to my job of keeping you uncomfortable with your convictions.

If I read something insightful or surprising or newsy that has the potential to upset at least half of my readers – in other words, an article or essay that I believe all my readers should know about – I’m going to help you decide if you want to read it.

To make the process as quick and easy as possible, I’m going to reproduce the piece as I found it, but I will highlight a dozen or so sentences that give you the gist.

I’ll limit the highlighted sentences to less than 200 words in total, so you can skim through the piece in a minute or less.

If those sentences pull you into the piece, then good. You can then go back to the first paragraph and read the whole thing.

Not only that, but in case, after skimming those sentences, you are left with doubts about the creditworthiness of the piece, I’ll lay down some facts in bullet form, which won’t take more than another minute to read.

How’s that for service?

I’m going to kick this off today with an article by James Freeman in The Wall Street Journal about crime in DC.

But first, a story about my own experience with it…