Ah! Another 'Pail Poll! Ew!

Well, you got a good grade on last week's 'Pail Poll. It asked whether the government should limit the pay of executives of banks that receive federal bailout money. You voted 15 to 2 in favor of this idea.

OK, who's the 2 wiseasses who voted no?

This week's 'Pail Poll concerns an idea that comes up every so often but never generates the interest it should.

With Ohio appearing increasingly likely to ban corporal punishment in its schools, our survey asks: Should there be a nationwide ban on school paddling?

Once in a while, a bill that would in effect do just that is introduced in Congress. If these bills had passed, schools that accept federal tax dollars (which probably includes every public school in America) would not have been allowed to use corporal punishment. Inexplicably, these measures never passed, even though almost every other country outlawed paddling at least 20 years ago.

The Campbell County Schools in my day didn't exactly prove corporal punishment's effectiveness, did they?