I almost missed it while traveling, but my man Dennis Miller did another hilarious op-ed in the Wall Street Journal the other day, this one dealing with Jerry Springer's possible Senate run.

Says Miller:

It's no secret that the gene pool, in addition to being a tad brackish as of late, is also so shallow now there doesn't even need to be a lifeguard on duty. Springer has stood astride that pool like a latter day Colossus Ignoramus of Rhodes for well over a decade now.

Now that's not to say I don't periodically find the "The Jerry Springer Show" intellectually stimulating. Indeed, how many times have I been walking through the parking lot of a laundromat and seen two obese women in halter tops slap fighting and thought, Wow . . . I wonder what the back story is on that?

Miller then suggests instituting a current-events quiz where you have to get seven out of 10 questions correct before being allowed to vote. Recognizing the furor such a test would cause, he suggests a more amenable revision:

All right, settle down, liberals. Make that four out of 10.