by Mark Steyn

About the author: Mark Steyn is the North American correspondent for the Spectator,a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph in the United Kingdom, and the theater critic for the New Criterion.

Joanne Jacobs, formerly a columnist with the San Jose Mercury News, spotted a dandy headline in her old paper last week. A Muslim mob had attacked a train full of Hindus, an unfortunate development which the Mercury News reported to its readers thus: ‘Religious Tensions Kill 57 In India’.

Ah, those religious tensions’ll kill you every time. Is there a Preparation H for religious tension? Or an extra-strength Tylenol, in case you feel a sudden attack coming on? I haven’t looked at the San Jose Mercury News for 12 September, 2001, but I...