Best of the Web Today is a daily online column written by The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto. From Wikipedia: Most of Taranto's commentary is politically oriented and conservative/neoliberal in perspective. He lambastes various public figures and organizations, from John Kerry, often described as "the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam," to Reuters, for which he uses headlines with excessive use of quotes in mockery of the service's overuse of scare quotes.

Taranto comments occasionally on topics of special interest to him such as the Roe effect (which proposes that parents who support abortion rights will have fewer children, causing support for abortion rights and politically liberal causes to decline among young people) in his column and also wrote an article about it.

Best of the Web Today features a number of recurrent in jokes and self-referential word plays that are not readily apparent to novice readers. One of Taranto's pet peeves is the metric system of measurements, "an outmoded collection of weights and measures based on pagan superstitions about the power of the number 10." Moreover, "metric" has become a derogatory term as when Taranto refers to soccer as "metric football." (read less)

Best of the Web Today is a daily online column written by The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto. From Wikipedia: Most of Taranto's commentary is politically oriented and conservative/neoliberal in perspective. He lambastes various public figures and organizations, from John Kerry, often described as "the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam," to Reuters, for which he uses headlines with excessive use of quotes in mockery of the service's overuse... (read more)