Questions Nobody Is Asking

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

Bottom Stories of the Day
“Back-to-Back Asteroids Harmlessly Fly Past Earth”–headline, Associated Press, May 29

Questions Nobody Is Asking
“What Happens When You Dial 867-5309 in Dayton?”–headline, Dayton Daily News website, May 29

So Let’s Invade France
“US Rejects Syria Intervention, France More Open”–headline, Jerusalem Post, May 30

Great Moments in Journalism
Reuters news service can’t bring itself to call the 9/11 attacks terrorism, but it calls this news:

The votes are in and it is unanimous: Barack Obama will win re-election to the U.S. presidency in November, according to five astrologers who offered predictions at their convention on Tuesday.

Each of the five astrologers on the presidential panel explained how they came to their assessments, with most relying on studies of celestial charts pertinent to both Obama and presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney for the date of either the election itself or the next presidential inauguration.

We hear the astrologers also reached a consensus about global warming.

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