The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
What Would We Do Without Experts?
“Snakebites Should Be Taken Seriously, Abilene Experts Say”–headline, Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News, March 24
‘We Drool, So We Rule!’
“Students Dribbling With Pride”–headline, Boston Herald, March 23
A Mighty Wind
Do they have editors at the New York Times?…Get a load of this sentence from Charles Blow’s latest column:
The Republican Party is experiencing an existential crisis, born of its own misguided incongruity with modern American culture and its insistence on choosing intransigence in a dynamic age of fundamental change.
It’s as if someone challenged him to prove how windily he could say “Republicans are out of touch.”
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
“An earlier version of this article included several errors. Georgetown’s record is 25-7, not 25-6. Florida Gulf Coast’s record in the Atlantic Sun was 13-5, not 17-1. Florida Gulf Coast became the seventh No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 seed, not the sixth. Georgetown has now failed to advance past the Round of 16 in the past six years under Coach John Thompson III, not the past seven. Florida Gulf Coast forward Eddie Murray was incorrectly referred to as Eddie Murphy. Florida Gulf Coast was misidentified in some instances as Gulf Coast College.”–New York Times, March 23
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