Commentary
Some news stories I did not see coming. Others I can’t see when they arrive. For instance the New York Times “Wirecutter,” which alternates useful hints about affordable items with incomprehensible ones about trends, just told me that wherever I go, whatever I do, “You’re likely to encounter something bathed in the cheery wash of this season’s it color: butter yellow.” And my reaction is not that the statement is factually incorrect, or even that the actual colour of my walls is better. It’s that I cannot begin to understand how there can be such a thing as an “it” colour. It’s either nice or it’s not.
