That Sure Beats a Pillar of Salt

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

That Sure Beats a Pillar of Salt
“Did Madoff Turn Wife Into Swiss Bank Account?”–Crain’s New York Business, March 23

Bottom Stories of the Day

• “Major Concert Tours Not Making Stops at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena This Summer”–headline, Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press, March 22
• “Japan Singer Utada Makes 3rd Bid to Crack U.S. Market”–headline, Reuters, March 23
• “Rep. Frank Calls Scalia a ‘Homophobe’ in Interview”–headline, Associated Press, March 23
• “Deer Prance Through Field on a Chilly Spring Morning”–headline, Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.), March 24
• “Ex-Chicago Official Found Guilty of Hiring Fraud”–headline, Associated Press, March 23
• “Gore to Revisit Climate Crisis in New Book”–headline, New York Times Web site, March 24

For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.