Cannot select text in mail

I am using Mail in Yosemite. In both new and replying to emails I cannot select the text. Do I need to turn some kind of protection off? This has happened since the last update of Yosemite on 22 April.

From my experience,  it depends on the web page.  Snopes, for example, uses a java script that preventes one from selecting text, and that initially fooled me into thinking that aplplied to all pages in Safari 5.1. Not so; I can select text in other pages.
David Kirk at Tech Recipes suggested this override on this particular kind of java script:
"... just past the following into the address bar of your browser and press ENTER:
javascript:void(document.onselectstart=null)
  Worked swell for me.

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