Say it ain't so, Taranto!

Two weeks without Best of the Web Today? Vacation my eye. After being outed as Valerie Plame's covert husband, Citizen Taranto hightails it to Reno for a quickie divorce. (Ever find yourself in a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film?)

My Fetus Killing Me!

Usually Reuters is the most politically correct news organization around, but an exception is these two headlines, both from yesterday on the same story:

Reuters: "Unborn Babies Carry Pollutants, Study Says"

Associated Press: "Study: Fetuses Exposed to Toxic Chemicals"

As if you're not already confused enough about what to call those womb-bound critters, the Reuters dispatch includes yet another locution, in a quote from Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York:

"If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb," Slaughter, a Democrat, said.

With a name like Slaughter, she ought to know that by order of the U.S. Supreme Court, you haven't lived until you've lived outside the womb.