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

News of the Tautological
“Woman Missing Since She Got Lost”–headline, Chicago Sun-Times, May 17

Bottom Stories of the Day
“Miranda Lambert Changing Name After Marriage”–headline, MSNBC.com, May 17

Obama to Quit Next Year?
The Associated Press reports on a conversation Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims to have had with President Obama:

[Mrs.] Clinton says Obama told her recently, “I’m going to win re-election, and then I’m done,” a remark that drew laughter from the audience.

If Mrs. Clinton is telling the truth, and if Obama is a man of his word, the Biden presidency will begin on Nov. 7, 2012.

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