Eats Commas

NPR reported about the death of the Oxford comma (in its PR department, not in its stylebook) back at the end of June, and I missed that missive!  I can't believe that the news didn't make more of an impact.  I would have thought the ripples at least would have at least lapped up to the shore of Sacramento.  But, no.  We were blissfully ignorant of the Oxford dilemma.

I'm also surprised that the article didn't mention Lynn Truss' book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves since the whole point of the title was the comma.  Commas, it seems, are the maze of punctuation.  If a writer successfully solves the maze, readers are happy.  But should the writer stumble and get lost, readers immediately try to come to the author's aid or mock him/her for stupidity.  Either way, the author is left thinking the most important things in his/her book was a period with a tail.