I'm my own (great-)grandpa

Correction of the morning, from the Newspaper of Record:

Because of an editing error, a report last Sunday about the marriage of Dr. Emily Israel and James Pluhar misstated the bride’s relationship to an ancestor. She is a great-granddaughter of the airplane engine designer Charles Lanier Lawrance, not his great-grandfather.

Sweet leaping lizards

The original seems to be no longer available, but this correction points back to a remarkable bit of cross-cultural misunderstanding:

Because of a reporter's error in a Friday story about Seder, the Jewish observance of Passover, two references were made to actions symbolic of Jesus. In the first, the breaking of the matzo is not representative of Jesus and in the second reference, wine is not representative of his blood.

Go forth and ... just don't.