The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Yet the U.N. Made Him Secretary-General
“Michigan Lawmaker: Ban Openly Carried Guns in Schools”–headline, Detroit News, March 15
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- “Pope Francis Has Only One Lung. Is It Enough?”–headline, Los Angeles Times website, March 14
- “Why Don’t the Jews Have a Pope?”–headline, Jewish Telegraphic Agency website, March 14
Bottom Stories of the Day
“Israelis, Palestinians Pin No Peace Hopes on Obama Trip”–headline, Reuters, March 14
Hello Kitty
…The New York Times report…from the Korean Peninsula:
When North Korea blamed President Park Geun-hye’s “venomous swish of skirt” this week for tensions on the Korean Peninsula, it brought up an issue that had been mainly unremarked upon in South Korea: Would their leader’s gender [sic] color the latest confrontation between the Koreas?
The North Koreans, masters of outrageous propaganda, no doubt picked their phrase carefully for the South’s first female president. “Swish of skirt” was long an insult in Korean culture, directed at women deemed too aggressive, far from the traditional ideal of docile and coy.
If the South Koreans are looking for a comeback, allow us to suggest that they start referring to the top Nork as “Kitty Jong-un.”
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