The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Brazen Pandering to the Avian-American Vote
“Romney: ‘I love Big Bird’ “–headline, Yahoo! News, Oct. 3
Because It Had Done Something Baaad
“Why Was a Sheep in a Seattle Police Car?”–headline, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oct. 3
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- “What Do the Amish Think of a Mormon Presidential Candidate?”–headline, The Economist website, Oct. 3
- “What Does It Feel Like to Be a Smart Person?”–headline, Slate.com, Oct. 2
Great Moments in Public Education
“A uniform-free ‘dress-down’ day at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond turned into a public dressing down for a student who chose to wear a pink T-shirt supporting Mitt Romney for president,” reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Port Richmond is a neighborhood not far from Fishtown:
Samantha Pawlucy, a sophomore at Carroll High, said her geometry teacher publicly humiliated her by asking why she was wearing a Romney/Ryan T-shirt and going into the hallway to urge other teachers and students to mock her.
“I was really embarassed and shocked. I didn’t think she’d go in the hallway and scream to everyone,” Pawlucy said. “It wasn’t scary, but it felt weird.”
Pawlucy said she decided to wear the shirt after researching the candidate and President Obama and concluding that she’s a Romney supporter. Her father, Richard Pawlucy, said she was especially interested in Romney’s opposition to partial-birth abortion. …
During the incident, Samantha Pawlucy said the teacher told her that Carroll High is a “Democratic school” and wearing a Republican shirt is akin to the teacher, who is black, wearing a KKK shirt.
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