The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
The Fine for Having a Cow Is $200
“Driver Fined $100 for Having Goat in Trunk”–headline, Associated Press, Aug. 21
News of the Tautological
“Unguarded Border Bridges Could Be Route Into US”–headline, Associated Press, Aug. 19
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Constitution Party Candidate Files Complaint”–headline, KSL-TV website (Salt Lake City), Aug. 22
- “Skepticism Widespread in Mideast Over New Peace Talks”–headline, McClatchy, Aug. 20
- “Once Again, Pageant Queen Outsmarts President”–headline, PowerLineBlog.com, Aug. 20
An Atrocious Sentence, but No Crime
This almost seems unsporting, but we can’t resist. From a New York Times editorial on the Justice Department’s decision to drop its investigation of Tom DeLay:
Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been “found innocent.” But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.
By the same logic, the New York Times editorialists are not in the dock only because “criminal stupidity” is a figure of speech and not an actual law.
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