Background: there’s a macaque monkey loose in Tampa Bay. It’s been there for years, and generally speaking, the populace is perfectly fine with that. The government is not, but it has not successfully captured the beast, apparently because it is chasing a super-genius macaque monkey which is also being pretty much aided and abetted by the human citizenry. This will keep happening until the monkey either flips out and actually attacks people, or it dies of old age. The end.
But in the hands of the NYT, we get a parable about compromise. Although, to be fair: you can see where that part was grafted on. So I blame the editor, not the author.
Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh Trust the NYT magazine to make a mountain out of a macaque.