Editorial Recycling

One of the reasons this blog is called Best of Both Worlds is that we like to bring our vast readership perspectives from two continents using the speed and simultaneity of the Internets. We thus feel superior today to the Wall Street Journal, in which the US edition just re-uses an editorial from the European edition a few weeks ago about the Irish Republic's law requiring Irish language placenames on signposts in Irish speaking areas. We blogged about it back then, but the WSJ doesn't even take advantage of the reusage to make the editorial free this time, so there really is nothing to new to add.

And it's not like the editors are using the time freed up by a cut and paste from a regional edition to do any actual, like, editing, because on the web opinion page blurb for this article, we see:

The Western Front BY BRENDAN MINITER
A U.S. pope is out of the quesiton--and that says something damning about America's Catholic Chruch.

Is the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy gearing up for a War on English?