Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking

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

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
“I’ll Never Run for Office, Bill Gates Says”–headline, Associated Press, Oct. 9

Out on a Limb
“Romney desperately needed a break, something to change the trajectory of this race, and clearly he got one in the debate. How much exactly the debate did and how much the surprisingly strong jobs report on Friday offset it will become more clear in the coming days.”–Charlie Cook, NationalJournal.com, Oct. 9

Posea’s Fables
“A local teen’s horseback riding lesson ended abruptly after she was hit in the head by a foot-long hunk of raw chicken that fell out of a cloudless sky,” the Daily Times of Salisbury, Md., reports from Assawoman, Va. (yes, that’s a real place):

Fortunately, what hit Cassie Bernard was the smallest of three or more poultry parts that rained down on Queen Hive Farm around 6 p.m. Wednesday as owner Jennifer Cording was giving a lesson to a group of advanced students while several parents looked on.

“Three objects fell out of the sky in front of us, two larger and one quite small,” Cording said.

The chicken is falling! The chicken is falling! It reminds us of a children’s story–you remember, the one about the wolf who cried boy.

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