Deer Playing Football Tackled by Boy—Now That Would Be News

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

Deer Playing Football Tackled by Boy–Now That Would Be News
“Boy Playing Football Tackled by Deer”–headline, Associated Press, Oct. 13

News of the Tautological
“Cold Front Causes Chilly Weather”–headline, Frederick (Md.) News-Post, Oct. 13

Snowe Falls in October
“With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama’s goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law,” the Associated Press reports from Washington:

Maine Republican Olympia Snowe said she was laying aside misgivings for now and voting to advance the bill, a sweeping $829-billon, 10-year health care remake that would help most Americans get coverage without creating a new government insurance plan. “When history calls, history calls,” said Snowe.

Which makes her a shoo-in for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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