The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
The Old One Didn’t Hold Enough Water
“City Will Replace Burned Water Tower With Larger One”–headline, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), Feb. 11
Questions Nobody Is Asking
“GREEN: Where in the World Is Al Gore?”–headline, Aurora (Colo.) Sentinel, Feb. 10
Don’t Let This Opportunity Go to Waste
Texas’ capital city wants to rename a municipal department and is holding an online poll to come up with a new moniker, the Austin American-Statesman reports:
Officials with Austin’s Solid Waste Services expected to receive offbeat ideas when they asked residents to suggest a new name for the city department.
They didn’t expect the top online vote-getter to be Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts, followed by, among others, Ministry of Filth, Hufflepuff, Lemon Party and Keep Austin Wasted. . . .
The department wants a name that better reflects the variety of services it provides, which includes trash collection, recycling, street sweeping and litter abatement. It first held focus groups and settled on three rather plain finalist names: Austin Resource Collection & Recovery Utility, Austin Recycling & Waste Reduction Department and Austin Resource Recovery Utility .
Then it asked the public to vote for those names or add others to an online poll. A local college student suggested naming the department after Durst–lead singer of the rock group Limp Bizkit–and the online poll went viral, Herber said. . . .
The city’s original three ideas rank far behind, along with dozens of others, such as Hippy Scum; Waste not, want not.; Bubbleface; and Leslie’s Shopping Cart.
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