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

It’s Always in the Last Place You Look 
“Pig Weighing Nearly 300 Pounds Found in Wrecked Car”–headline, Yahoo! News, Dec. 12

Breaking News From Stardate 2821.5 
“Spock Gets 15 Years in Prison for Crash”–headline, WEWS-TV website (Cleveland), Dec. 12

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “Recount Doesn’t Affect SCC Board of Governors Race”–headline, Omaha World-Herald, Dec. 13
  • “Spending-Cut Proposals Drawing Democratic Flak”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 13
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
“In this column, the author suggested that he was moved to talk about over-sharing and anxiety online after he came across two comments on Twitter. In fact, both comments were taken from a Web site, www.oversharers.com, that the writer consulted as part of his research. One of the comments, from Claire, was from a Twitter feed; the other, from Deanna, was from Facebook. They were both written in 2010. The writer should not have implied he stumbled across them while reading recent Twitter feeds.”–New York Times, Dec. 11

Time Imitates the Onion

  • “Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012”–headline, Onion [satirical newspaper], Nov. 14
  • “Kim Jong-un Chosen as Time Magazine Readers’ Person of the Year With 5.6 million Votes”–headlne, Daily Telegraph (London), Dec. 13

For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.”