Shortest Books Ever Written

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

Shortest Books Ever Written
“What We Can Learn From Kim Kardashian and Danny DeVito”–headline, Salon.com, Oct. 8

Out on a Limb
“Fitch Sees Policy Continuity in Venezuela After Chavez Win”–headline, Reuters, Oct. 8

Now There’s a Plan
“Thursday’s vice presidential debate is almost certainly the most important VP debate we’ve ever had. Rarely has a vice presidential candidate been as closely associated with his party’s views and philosophical commitments as Paul Ryan is. And Obama really needs a blowout performance from Biden. Only rarely do presidential candidates need to bank so much on their running mates. The closest analogy is to George W. Bush, who needed and got a good 2004 performance from Dick Cheney after John Kerry routed Bush in the first debate. Biden feels a lot of pressure already, but my strong hunch is that he will deliver the mood-change Obama needs.”–E.J. Dionne, Washington Post website, Oct. 9

Princeton Malaprop
Proof that an Ivy League education doesn’t necessarily make one literate comes from William Potter, Princeton Class of 1968. In an article for the Princetonian, the student newspaper, he endorses President Obama–all but one sentence, which says the opposite of what he intends:

I will be cruelly blunt: Any student who supports Mr. Romney betrays the intelligence and common sense that earned him or her admission into Princeton.

We’ll be even more cruelly blunt, Potter: You belie it.

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