The most horrific part of the debate last night

( He air-quoted -women's health- as an extreme reason for a woman to have an abortion. )

And it was a pretty big challenge to choose the most horrific part - but frankly, while there are problems in having teachers who've had no certification process and no training in teaching, especially on an elementary school classroom-teacher level* and there are catastrophic issues with McCain's health care proposals and his complaints about John Lewis just feel weird, none of that demonstrably minimizes the health of girls and women across the country. What's next? Air quotes for "incest" or "rape"?

[Poll #1279744]


* I think there is merit in having middle- and high-school teachers, and in specialty classes, where someone who doesn't have a specific certification but does have a specialty in that area, but given that I've just been through a situation where someone with a teaching degree but no early childhood education was my son's kindergarten teacher (until the principal removed her because she wasn't a good K-level teacher) and was rapidly screwing up his learning experience, I'm not very into it for the K-5 level.

SPN: Full-on hate

for clients who call me at 9:43 with a consent agreement crisis and interrupt Show.

Grrr.

Plus, I started ten minutes late (YAY for DVRs) because of Putting Kids to Sleep. ( But at least I eventually got to see Show. )

Wish I were seeing it at wincon, though.

And I just read kerrikins' post about Jared's recent interview wherein he discussed Ruby and I think there's some good food for thought there. It's pretty much what I was thinking earlier today but she already wrote it so I don't have to.