...as I read the article (I hate to do that. I can normally tell ya what it says just by knowing the name of the writer or the publication it appears in) I can see that it was a statistician and that they are really not cutting them in half. MY close relationship with my headsman probably biased me a bit.

Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!