The nitpickers are coming after Diana Nyad, wanting her to verify some of the more questionable aspects of her historic swim from Cuba to Miami, and to that I say: Good. Nitpickers aren't always good.

Diana Nyad’s famous Cuba to Florida swim is now a film starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. Diana’s friend, top editor and former Time magazine journalist Elaine Lafferty, chronicled it. Happens ...