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Special Announcement: Clinton is not a chemist.

A number of people called us and also called the White House to ask if it was true that Bill Clinton won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, as we asserted in a recent column on FDR.

This goes to show that we live in a world so preposterous it is impossible to make a comment with enough preposterousness to be distinguishable from the normal background madness. Rest assured that Clinton is a lawyer. To our knowledge he couldn't tell the periodic table from a floor plan of the West Wing.

Then again, if Yasser Arafat can win the Nobel Peace Prize, anything's possible.

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