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

News of the Tautological
“Unmarried Couples Find Divorce Difficult”–headline, WDSU-TV website (New Orleans), Nov. 9

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “Voters Across Nation Stick Largely by Incumbents”–headline, CBSNews.com, Nov. 9
  • “Conn. Seniors Oppose Possible Social Security Cuts”–headline, Associated Press, Nov. 9

Occupy Wall Street Updates
Meanwhile, The Smoking Gun quotes a Portland police report on another incident:

“Occupy Portland protesters became enraged when Pizza Schmizza ran out of breadsticks to accompany their entree order. They threatened to assault employees and vandalize the restaurant.”

A police spokesman told TSG that the incident Sunday evening involved a man and woman who became upset when they were told that the pizzeria had temporarily run out of breadsticks and that they would have to wait 15-20 minutes for a new batch. The customers, cops noted, told a Pizza Schmizza employee, “Your job is bullsh–, you know you work for a big corporation.”

At the original Obamaville, New York’s Zuccotti Park, the Times reports that “the [police] department seems to have ceded patrols of the park interior to the protesters”–a shocking dereliction of duty by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly. “The protesters have maintained a de facto security team for many weeks, bolstering their numbers with volunteers from outside their ranks, including former gang members,” the report adds.

Security patrols by “former” gang members? What could possibly go wrong?

And in California’s capital, the local KOVR-TV reports that “Occupy Sacramento” is clashing with local bums who were sleeping in the park before it was cool. The story ends with a great quote:

“They say they’re gonna stay until Wall Street goes down,” one homeless woman says. “I don’t see Wall Street going down. Wall Street is too big.”

We guess it’s true what they say about the land of the blind.

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