>>>Every Friday afternoon, 2 of my buddies from high school and I have a Friday afternoon e-mail topic (kind of a nice way to ease into the weekend)....I'd like to share today's topic with everyone.
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>>>Our DOOD award...Dolt Of The Day.
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>>>By a vote of 3-nil, the award went to this man...
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>>>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/30/bennett.comments/index.html
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>>>I understand Bennett's next radio guest will be Rush Limbaugh.
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>>From the article:
>>Asked if he owed people an apology, Bennett replied, "I don't think I do. I think people who misrepresented my view owe me an apology."
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>>And I think he's right on this one. You own him an apology, Kevin. It is unfair to quote him out of context and then call him a dolt. :(
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>See my message elsewhere in the thread for exactly what was said. He was not quoted out of context. He's an idiot.

You have not convinced me, on the contrary. Bennet makes it very clear at the end that acting according to such a hypothesis would be very reprehensible. Isn't Freakonomics the title of a book published by some unconventional economists ('statistician' describes them better)? Bennet and the caller were discussing about a finding described in that book: The decrease of crime rate in NY is not caused by the zero-tolerance policy of Rudy Guliani, but happened because 20-30 years earlier abortion was allowed by the Supreme High Court and esp. black single women had made extensive use of it, leading to far less criminal juvenile in the streets.