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

He Should’ve Done That When He Founded Human Rights Watch
“HRW Founder Bernstein Starts Advancing Human Rights”–headline, Camera.org, March 3

Hey, Kids! What Time Is It?
“Now Is the Time to Ask, ‘What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs?’ “–headline, AOLNews.com, March 3

Chavez Earns His Prize
“Muammar Gaddafi has accepted an offer from Venezuela to mediate in Libya’s political crisis after talks with Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president,” Al Jazeera reports:

Sources told our correspondent in Caracas that Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan’s foreign minister, discussed the offer with Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, and that details of the plan could be announced by the Arab League in Cairo on Thursday.

But Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of the opposition National Libyan Council, told Al Jazeera he rejected entirely the concept of talks with Gaddafi, and said no one been in contact regarding the Venezuelan initiative.

The Boston Globe notes in an editorial that Chavez is a past recipient of the Gadhafi International Prize for Human Rights. The Globe bravely urges the latest recipient of the prize, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to repudiate the “ludicrous prize.” It notes that other recipients have included, in the words of the prize’s website, “The American Moslem freedom-fighter Louise Farakan [sic]” (1996) and the late “Freedom-Fighter President Fidel Castro” (1998). If a firefighter fights fires, what does a freedom fighter fight?

The Globe leaves out some other, more respectable recipients, including, “The Great African freedom-fighter President Nelson Mandela” (1989) and “The Red Indians” (1991). The website hasn’t been updated since 2004, but at least as far as we can tell, Gadhafi hasn’t given a prize to Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore or Paul Krugman. There are standards.

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