Most Livable City: Bethesda?

Magazine ranking stories are like In/Out lists and movie Top Ten lists -- I know I shouldn't fall for them, but I do. Now here's Forbes magazine, purporting once again to list the most livable cities in the country. I'd have skipped right past this -- really, I would have -- but for this utterly strange factoid: The geniuses at Forbes list as the second most livable city in these United States Bethesda -- yes, our Bethesda. Leaving aside the fact that Bethesda is not a city -- heck, it doesn't even have its own government, let alone lots of...

By Marc Fisher | April 20, 2009; 08:33 AM ET | Comments (69)