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

It’s Always in the Last Place You Look

  • ” ‘Extinct’ Tiny Caddisfly Found at River in Assynt”–healdine, BBC Web site, March 4
  • “Town Finds Good Neighbor in Nuclear Plant”–headline, New York Times, March 4

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “Direct Marketers, Catalog Companies: We Can Adjust to Five-Day Postal Week”–headline, AdAge.com, March 3
  • “Palin Pitching TV Show About Alaska”–headline, Daily Beast, March 3 

For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.