While many (probably including me) will make light of it, there is a serious point to this story about Florida's law banning dwarf tossing, and one self-described dwarf's battle to end it. Does the state or the State have a legitimate right to proscribe the livelihood of a man for which he is ideally physically suited? After all, as he points out, seven-foot-tall freaks are allowed to make (big) money jostling and injuring each other on a hardwood floor while throwing balls through hoops. He just wants the right to make a more meager living being hurled onto an air mattress by drunks. If we let them get away with this, the next thing you know, they'll outlaw elf bowling.

When we're not allowed to toss dwarves, the terrorists win.

Missed this the first time around, Rand. Seems we think alike, though.

What I can't get over is this: had someone a year ago told me I'd one day be defending dwarf tossing, I'd have told him he was crazy.

And yet here am I -- writing a comment that is essentially a meta-dwarf tossing comment. It's crazy!