The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
NOTE: The excerpts below are from the 11/29/10 BOTW archives.
Hot Property
“After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner,” reports Agence France-Presse:
A woman from Spain’s soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our solar system.
There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added. . . .
Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun.
The good news is, she plans to offer discounts at night.
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