A MURKOWSKI OOPS: That Queen of sound, sane, sensible, boring government by well-connected heiresses, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, employs staff who cannot spell her name.

UPDATE: More typo fun: 15 Best Things About Our Pubic Schools. Heh. Hey, typos happen, and it’s not really a surprise that four people missed this. You see what you expect to see unless you’re really careful. And sometimes even then.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader John Kahn writes:

As a former tech writer, I can say that the real reason typos like that happen is the fact that you only really see with definition in a tiny circle (the macula) in the center of your vision and outside that it’s peripheral vision. Out of place letters get missed because the reader jumped along and failed to scan that group of letters with the macular section of vision.

The best way to proofread documents for typos, which we used back in the typewriter days, is for one person to read aloud while the other follows the text as it is read. By listening to someone reading aloud it forces your eyes’ macular zones to scan the text slowly as the word are read out, so words aren’t skipped over and typos pop out easily.

Yeah, we used to do “readbacks” at the law review that worked exactly that way.