The Fatal Attraction of a Murder of Crows

by Charles Mudedebunhill/gettyimages.com
We can not forgive the opening sentence of this almost interesting Seattle Times piece, "What’s with all the cawing? UW team eavesdrops on crows":"If a congregation of crows is called a murder, then the nightly gathering at North Creek Wetlands could be described as a massacre."Someone should have told the reporter to let go of that final word (which completes the idea of the sentence) after she too eagerly, too quickly, too joyously pounced on it.