The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “NAACP Backs Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Kagan”–headline, Associated Press, May 16
- “NRA Criticizes Kagan on Gun Rights”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, May 15
Reliable Sources
They say that when a man bites a dog, it’s news–but this story in the Washington Post involves a dog and no biting at all:
Mel Antonen and his 3-year-old son, Emmett, were walking in Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill one morning when a chocolate Labrador puppy named Wilson jumped at the toddler and wouldn’t go away–even after Antonen lifted his boy out of the dog’s reach, yelling at the owner, “Get him off! Get him off!”
Owner and father exchanged words. Wilson’s owner, a journalist who has lived on Capitol Hill for 15 years and identified herself only as Linda because she didn’t want to be seen as hostile to children, said later that she wished parents would keep their children inside the park’s fenced-in play area. “I find people with children to be tyrants,” she said. “As someone who doesn’t have children, I think children are fine. I don’t think they own everything.”
You wonder what Linda’s full name is such that revealing it would cause her to be seen as hostile to children. Linda Babykiller? Linda I. Haterugrats? Linda U. Holyterrorkeepawayfromme?
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