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

Out on a Limb

  • “National Mood a Drag on Obama’s Re-Election Prospects”–headline, Gallup.com, May 16
  • “Is Pennsylvania in Play for November? Maybe.”–headline, Roll Call, May 15

News of the Tautological
“Clowns Plan to Protest During NATO Summit”–headline, WBBM-TV website (Chicago), May 16

Breaking News From 480 B.C.
“Greece on Brink of Collapse”–headline, Daily Telegraph (London), May 15

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “First Lady Books Another Reality Show”–headline, Politico.com, May 16
  • “NARAL Endorses Obama”–headline, Politico.com, May 15

Paint the Ink Red
“A Central Connecticut State University art professor who says he has long been the target of ‘low-grade harassment’ by the university went public Tuesday, citing an incident with campus police that he said interrupted his students’ work,” the Hartford Courant reports:

Alewitz, who teaches a mural class and a street art class, said CCSU’s collection of more than 100 murals is the biggest of any university in the country. . . .

The mural, which will be finished over the summer, depicts students struggling under the strain of college debt as the CCSU mascot, a blue devil, looks on.

[Taranto says:] So they take out student loans to pay for classes in how to paint murals protesting student loans? It would be funny, except for one thing: Like everything in the world of higher education, it’s all lavishly subsidized by your tax dollars.

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