The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
- “In quoting the superintendent in an earlier version of this story, a sentence read, ‘He said officials have reason to believe that anyone is in danger.’ That was an error on our part. The sentence should have read, ‘He said officials have no reason to believe that anyone is in danger.’ “–WHTM-TV website (Harrisburg, Pa.), Feb. 26
- “A picture caption on Saturday with an article about concerns over a proposed liquid petroleum tank in the Maine coastal town of Searsport described incorrectly opponents of the tank who were shown standing in a circle and holding hands. They were demonstrating the tank’s circumference, not its diameter.”–New York Times, Feb. 27
Come Fly With Me
From a Huffington Post post by Evangeline Lilly, an actress we haven’t heard of:
I boarded a jet plane this past Friday and traveled 16 hours through the night to Washington, D.C. I was back on a plane again on Monday morning flying the reverse 16 hours back home. I was in Washington with over 40,000 other protesters for the Forward on Climate Rally, to call President Obama to say “no” to the [Keystone XL] pipeline.
The journey was long and on the way there I read Tim Flannery’s Now or Never, an inspiring (short) read on the state of the planet in the face of climate change. On the way back I was too exhausted to read or do anything productive, so I watched b-movies and contemplated my experience at the largest climate rally in U.S. history.
OK, there’s one thing about this story we don’t understand. If the plane was solar powered, how did she fly at night?
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