http://tailrank.com/5928891/At-least-they-didn-t-try-to-burn-him-at-the-stake Tailrank: At least they didn't try to burn him at the stake http://rss.tailrank.com/5928891/At-least-they-didn-t-try-to-burn-him-at-the-stake http://tailrank.com/5928891/At-least-they-didn-t-try-to-burn-him-at-the-stake http://tailrank.com/5928891/At-least-they-didn-t-try-to-burn-him-at-the-stake Mon, 12 May 2008 00:47:35 GMT <p> <a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15503.html"> <img src="http://static.tailrank.com/cache/5dafe85aa44b4d2c94b8a21c2032662d.jpg" width="200" height="117" border="1" align="right"/></a> Long-time readers know that I take a certain amount of pleasure in mocking Florida, where I was born and raised. There's just something … unique about it. Take, for example, a Tampa-area school firing a substitute teacher for doing a magic trick for his students. The telephone call that spelled the end of Jim Piculas' career as a substitute teacher in Pasco County came on a January day about a week after he performed the disappearing-toothpick trick for a group of rapt middle school students. </p> <br clear="all"/>