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

Longest Books Ever Written

  • “The Never-Ending List of Vice President Joe Biden’s Verbal Gaffes”–headline, TheDailyBeast.com, April 26
  • “How to Be Succinct”–headline, Chronicle of Higher Education website, April 24

But What’s a Henway?
“Pound Ducks U.K.’s Woes, for Now”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, April 27

For Now It’s Waiting Tables to Pay the Bills
“China Seeks to Star in South Pacific”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, April 27

News of the Tautological

  • ” ‘Little Women’ Production Centers on Female Characters”–headline, Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, April 26
  • “Conservative-Leaning Group Launches Anti-Obama Ad”–headline, Associated Press, April 26

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.”