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

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “Small Grass Fire Out in Cocoa Beach”–headline, Florida Today (Melbourne), Jan. 1
  • “Mariah Carey Is Bad at Science”–headline, CinemaBlend.com, Dec. 29  
  • “Australia Unlikely to Take Guantanamo Prisoners”–headline, Reuters, Jan. 2
  • “Obama’s Team Rankles the Right: To Some Conservatives, Advisers Are Alarmingly Liberal”–headline and subheadline, Washington Post, Jan. 2

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.”