Questions Nobody Is Asking

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

Metaphor Alert
“The Bears took a swing for the fences by choosing Marc Trestman to be the 14th head coach in team history, an NFL source told the Tribune early Wednesday.”–Chicago Tribune website, Jan. 16

That the Person Is Happy or Not Really Happy, Respectively
“What the Real & Fake Smiles at the Golden Globes Really Mean”–headline, WBBM-TV website (Chicago), Jan. 14

Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Did Google Run Over a Donkey in Botswana?”–headline, FoxNews.com Jan. 15

 News of the Tautological
“Washington’s Economic Boom, Financed by You”–headline, New York Times magazine, Jan. 13

Would You Like Freedom Fries With That?
The McBaguette, a new McDonald’s sandwich, is drawing mixed reviews in France:

“I’m lovin’ it,” Pierre Koffmann said after tasting for Bloomberg Television at a McDonald’s on Rue de Rivoli, in Paris. “If I was hungry walking by, I’d buy it with pleasure.”

“The garnish is good: There’s plenty of salad and plenty of everything. The bread isn’t a pure baguette because this one is shorter, but it’s good bread. Not the top bread in Paris but it’s good. I’m not disappointed by it,” said Koffmann, who held three Michelin stars at La Tante Claire in London in the 1990s. . . .

Not everyone is a fan of the McBaguette. Lionel Picot, a baker at Boulangerie Julien–which has won the “Meilleure Baguette de Paris,” or the “best baguette in Paris,” award–says McDonald’s is misusing traditional French fare.

“A baguette is long: It’s not this,” he said in an interview. “It should be forbidden. It’s unbearable that they were allowed to use the word baguette. It’s not real baguettes they use, so using the word is terrible.” …

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