The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Can a video game make Mickey Mouse cool again?”–subheadline, CBC.ca, Dec. 8
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Michael Bloomberg: I’m Not Running for President. Period.”–headline, CBSNews.com, Dec. 8
News of the Tautological
“Koreaceratops Fossil Discovered on Korean Peninsula”–headline, Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 7
Bottom Stories of the Day
“Milford Superfund Site Lights Annoy a Man in Upper Black Eddy, Pa.”–headline, Hunterdon (N.J.) Democrat, Dec. 9
And Sen. Byrd Will Recuse Himself From the Vote
A Bloomberg report on the tax deal mentions this odd provision: “A congressional staff member helping draft the legislation said the agreement would give people who died in 2010 a choice of tax treatment for the year: the 35 percent estate tax or a replacement capital-gains tax.”
Apparently the reporter made some calls to find out which option people would choose, but Alexander Haig, Lena Horne, Art Linkletter, Gary Coleman, George Steinbrenner, Theodore Sorensen, Jill Clayburgh, Dino De Laurentiis, Leslie Nielsen and Elizabeth Edwards could not be reached for comment.
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