He Must Be a Really Bad Dresser

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

He Must Be a Really Bad Dresser
“Doctor’s Suit Tests Limits of Online Criticism”–headline, McClatchy Newspaperes, April 12

Guest Buys Alligator–Now That Would Be News
“Alligator Visits La. Motel, Bites Guest”–headline, Associated Press, April 12

Darling, I Love You, but Give Me Park Avenue
The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof describes the results of an “undercover investigation” of an egg farm:

“It’s physically hard to breathe because of the ammonia” rising from manure pits below older barns, said the investigator, who would not allow his name to be used because that would prevent him from taking another undercover job in agriculture. He said that when workers needed to enter an older barn, they would first open doors and rev up exhaust fans, and then rush in to do their chores before the fumes became overwhelming.

Mice sometimes ran down egg conveyer belts, barns were thick with flies and manure in three barns tested positive for salmonella, he said.

Manure, mice and flies? In a barn? Who’d have thunk it? Seriously, though, talk about provincial*. We have to wonder if Kristof has ever set foot outside the island of Manhattan. [*Provincial:  not knowing or caring about people and events in other places : having narrow or limited concerns or interests]

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