A Florida dad taught parents in the state last week that it's fine to spank your kids, as long as you call the cops to oversee it.

Did you know that in 20 hick states of our great union, it's still cool and A-OK for school officials to take your child into the dreaded "office" and administer stern thwacks to their bottom with some sort of wooden beating-stick, in order to teach them the difference between right and wrong (for example, violence is…

Today we looked at crazy Texas and their crazy new paddling law, which stirred up quite a conversation among you readers. One commenter shared his paddling story with us and it was... interesting.

Temple, Texas, now allows — nay encourages — teachers in its 14 schools to paddle any unruly kids. Apparently in Texas, as in 19 other states, corporal punishment is not illegal. Those states are (almost) all southern.