But, praise the Lord, I don't have a fever and so am not as miserable as I could be (especially consindering it is warm and sunny here in Southern California).

I walked around Costco like a zombie after an appointment with my eye doctor this morning. As I was finishing up loading my car with toilet paper and vitamins and whatnot this old couple passed by and offered to take my cart. I happily turned it over but as they were walking off with it I was mildly horrified at the thought that I might be infecting that sweet old couple with my snot-inducing virus. I really hope not!

And onto some political stuff, I was listening to Hannity on my way home from Costco and heard him interviewing Sean Allen, the kid who taped his teacher making outrageous remarks in a 10th grade geography class.

To be honest, I can't say I'm surprised. Maybe a little surprised, but not really. I grew up attending public schools in California's notoriously liberal SF Bay Area. Many of my teachers were proud of their hippy roots and my sister even had one journalism teacher show her class a video on "conservative bias" in the media. The only thing I ever learned about Ronald Reagan is that he was the guy who came up with "supply-side economics." And the only thing I learned about supply-side economics was that it was supposedly a massive failure.

What about the Cold War? you might ask. Honestly (and I've discussed this with others who attended my high school, which also happens to be one of the top public high schools in California) I had no clue what it was all about. Something about how people were all freaked out by nuclear war and thought that hiding under their desks would protect them? It was all very hush hush, and I can certainly see why. After all we "won" the Cold War, and not only that Ronald Reagan, a *gasp* conservative won it. They would much rather share with us the blunder that was Vietnam (which we learned was started by Nixon).

Anyway, I think I went off topic, but basically, no I'm not surprised by that teacher in Colorado. I just pray that by the time I have kids enough of the country will be so outraged by these crazy hippies passing themselves off as educators, that vouchers will be available so I can send my kids to a school that actually, you know, educates them. Novel idea, isn't it?