So it turns out that Howard Dean has made his campaign people work his schedule around his son's ball games. No matter what was going on, he would leave and fly to Vermont to see his boy play ball. That, I believe, is what the "family values" crowd calls "quality time" (a destestable phrase that they don't even know comes from 70's parenting lingo). It's what anyone would call dedicated parenting.

The man who is trashed daily on talk shows as being a "leftist (he isn't very far left at all) fringe case" is actually a man who has put being a father and husband first. In other words, he has been living the values he is accused of trying to destroy. He has based his life around nurturing his children (including when he was governor), and chosen to be in an equal partnership with his wife.

But in this country, people get their "education" by listening to corporate-owned Stepford anchors and Constitution-hating radio talk show hosts. Everything has been inverted, like in Alice In Wonderland, and ignorance is the fuel which runs the nation.