The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- “Is a Stable Government in the Netherlands Coming?”–headline, FiveThirtyEight.com, June 5
- “Why Is There No Great Hollywood Soccer Movie?”–headline, Los Angeles Times, June 6
News of the Tautological
- “Swampscott Man Shocked in Lightning Strike”–headline, Boston Globe website, June 4
- “Local Population Loves to Stay Put”–headline, Scranton (Pa.) Times-Tribune, June 7
Bottom Stories of the Day
“No Shots Fired at Union Station”–headline, Washington Post website, June 4
Lucky Break
“Palm tree fronds may have saved the life of a 4-year-old boy who on Friday morning fell from a 17th-floor balcony at the Doubletree Grand Hotel,” the Miami Herald reports. It turns out the child fell only seven floors, not 17:
The boy, whose name was not released by authorities, somehow climbed over a covered balcony railing, bounced off a palm tree and safely landed on the “dirt surface” of an area surrounding the hotel’s 10th-floor pool, said Kenia Reyes, a Miami police spokeswoman.
“It’s a miracle–he doesn’t appear to have broken a bone,” said Reyes, who said the boy was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for observation.
The moral of the story? It never hurts to have fronds in high places!
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