working to enact common-sense legislation That's one of my pet peeves, right there. The phrase "common-sense legislation" seems to be a code for either "we can

working to enact common-sense legislation That's one of my pet peeves, right there. The phrase "common-sense legislation" seems to be a code for either "we can't come up with a rational argument", or "you're not worth the trouble of proving this". Either way, the party saying this is hoping that we'll simply accept it at face value, and not think about it more deeply. It's common sense that the sun revolves around the earth, and the idea of Evolution is completely offensive to common sense. The fact that something is appealing to our intuition is really only loosely related to its veracity.