The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Because Taking Him Less Seriously Is Logically Impossible
“Why We Should Take Dennis Rodman More Seriously”–headline, NationalJournal.com, March 4
Out on a Limb
“Jeb Bush: Romney’s Campaign ‘Wasn’t the Best’ “–headline, Washington Post website, March 5
The Lonely Lives of Physicists
“Particle Physicists in U.S. Worry About Being Left Behind”–headline, New York Times, March 5
Don’t Worry, It’ll Take Forever to Bring That Much Water to a Boil
“Elephants Could Vanish Because of Poaching”–headline, United Press International, March 4
News of the Tautological
“French Pilots in Mali Doing Battle From the Sky”–headline, France24.com, March 5
Orphans Court Report
“An Upper Merion man accused of fatally stabbing his parents and twin brother wants to use his dead mother’s $1 million estate to pay for his defense and psychiatrists to treat his alleged mental illness,” reports the Times Herald of Montgomery County, Pa.:
Joseph C. McAndrew Jr., through his court-appointed guardian, filed papers in Montgomery County Orphans Court on Monday requesting access to the funds of the estate of his mother, Susan C. McAndrew, “for the purpose of retaining counsel and expert forensic psychiatrists so as to defend against the charges.”
According to court papers filed by the guardian, lawyer Joseph J. Hylan, Susan McAndrew’s estate has a gross value of about $1 million.
It reminds us of that joke about the guy who murdered his parents, then pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan. It’s the definition of gall.
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