An intelligent man is capable of overcoming problems and difficulties a wise man would have avoided in the first place.

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Reducing Class Sizes
There is only one China
A new level of religious tolerance
Which is worth more, living or just staying alive?
Washington learns from...Florida!
Sniperphobia spreads
Glenn Reynolds on Mars
Make smoking unconstitutional
Pregnant Pigs
There is only one China
A new level of religious tolerance
Which is worth more, living or just staying alive?
Washington learns from...Florida!
Sniperphobia spreads
Glenn Reynolds on Mars
Make smoking unconstitutional
Pregnant Pigs

My first byline
When the Sentinel told me they were running my contribution in their Friday Forum this week, they didn't say who I was up against. The subject was Florida's proposed constitutional amendment limiting classroom sizes and my 'opponent' was Sen. Kendrick Meek, who heads the amendment drive.
Pessimist – checks the obits first.
Optimist – checks the lottery first.
American politics should get a lot more interesting, now that New Jersey allows tag team campaigns. With primaries declared irrelevant (as voter turnouts have told us all along,) we can get back to the proper politics of back room deal-making.
Here is the best description of the future
Now we know what the funniest joke in the world is. I guess, based on other results reported by the study, it would have been even funnier if it had been about duck hunters.