Our fair city has long had a reputation, deserved or not, for being a Backwater Bastion of Provincialism and for being slow to embrace emerging trends and the avant-garde. As Mark Twain once said, "When I die, I want it to happen in
One may argue how richly this reputation is deserved, for the city also has a rich pedigree of innovation in research, medicine, technology, manufacturing and knowledge leadership.
Still … every once in a while … some of our denizens say or do something so monumentally pointillist that it only reinforces and perpetuates the widely held perception of provincialism, defensiveness and laughable small-mindedness.
Case in point: "Pittsburgh couple sues Google over Street View"
