The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News You Can Use
“When Pretending to Be a Cop, Don’t Pull Over the Mayor”–headline, Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.), Sept. 16
News of the Tautological
“Study Indicates Less of Both Rain and Snow Likely in Future Dry Years in Pacific Northwest”–headline, KSTU-TV Web site (Salt Lake City), Sept. 15
‘Oops, Don’t Know My Own Strength’
“Elderly Driver Swatting Bug Demolishes Tree”–headline, Taunton (Mass.) Daily Gazette, Sept. 16
Wannabe Pundits
It’s time for another game of “guess the topic”:
OK, this is a stretch, but I am reminded of attempts to reform the U.S. health insurance system and climate change legislation. In each case creating something that respects reality seems to be beyond the powers that be. And yet even the watered down compromise product that emerges from the sausage factory can’t attract sufficient support. Further evidence that the American public is hopelesly [sic] polarized.
We’ll give you two guesses, and if they’re ObamaCare and Cap’n Trade, you lose! It’s actually a story about “Defying Gravity,” a science-fiction TV program, and it appears on a site called ScienceBlogs.com. So the author, on a site we guess is devoted to science, is writing about science fiction and using it as an excuse to spout nonsense about politics.
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