The Wall Street Journal publishes a daily "best of the web" segment on their website, a humorous look at the important (and sometimes not so important though highly publicized) news items of each day. It's compiled by James Taranto, the WSJ's inhouse blogger and an occasional guest on Fox News.
After our "oily concerns" blog post on Monday, we got to thinking and decided to email James Taranto and see what he thought about our journalistic sleuthing.
Apparently, he liked it a lot. Or enough to include it in today's Wall Street Journal installment
The text below is his rendition of our "Oily Concerns" post.
Hard to Please
Here's an amusing series of news headlines about the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Dollar figures in parentheses are the price of a barrel of crude at the time of the article:
"OPEC Secretary-General Expresses Concern Over Rising Oil Prices"--May 16, 2004 ($40.77)
"OPEC Says It's Lost Control of Oil Prices"--March 14, 2005 ("north of $50 a barrel and rising")
"OPEC President Voices Concerns Over Rising Prices"--Aug. 28, 2005 ($66.13)
"Falling Oil Prices Add to Opec's Worries"--Sept. 12, 2006 ($63.76)
OK, we can reconcile the last two headlines and conclude that the optimal price of oil is somewhere between $63.77 and $66.12. But how can $63.76 be too low while $40.77 is too high? It's Goldilocks in Bizarro World!
Lest you doubt us, the bottom of every Best of the Web includes his thanks to the contributors:
"Thanks to John Krickus, Ed Lasky, Fritz Sands, [Sleuth]..."
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5 comments:
dude
that's sweet. put it on your resume.
i'm impressed! nice work, slip.
Awesome. Manville's hit the big time!
Jason,
I like your taste in sites to brouse. I send in funny stuff from the Asheville NC paper from time to time. I was in BOTW last Friday. I sent three items in today and got a mention in the credtits for could not find any of the items. For your edification (as well as for your vast audience) here is what I sent i:
Experts: Effect of cohabitation ruling remains unclear
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/NEWS02/60914001
Here is another "what would we do without experts" headline
Yours truly,
Skip Gillikin (Matthew's dad)
And on the silly side in today's Citizen-Times
Bigfoot rumor has Hot Springs abuzz
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/NEWS01/60913095/1009
And even sillier from yesterday's edition
What better to see at the fair than animals that aren’t quite right
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/NEWS01/60913086/1009
If you are free this weekend, come on down to the Mountain State Fair!!!
Yeah....thats my Family!
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