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

image1050World’s Dorkiest Criminals 
“Utah Couple Suspected of Stealing 108 Graphing Calculators”–headline, Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 20

Out on a Limb 
“Israel Calls Iranian President’s Nuclear Comments Deceptive”–headline, Reuters, Sept. 19

Diane Sawyer Sighs With Relief 
“BP: State Can’t Order Removal of Anchors”–headline, Associated Press, Sept. 20

Questions Nobody Is Asking 
“Have we now become a plebiscitary democracy where great questions of the day are to be decided based on public-opinion polls? What’s next? Are we going to give every American a Xbox-like device that he can use to instantly vote on every bill before Congress and every major decision on the president’s desk?”–Max Boot, Commentary website, Sept. 19

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