the truth on the playground

T1 got in the car after school eager to tell me about how she had become a scientist that afternoon. As you read this, bear in mind that this was related to me in the "he said, she said" breathless tones only a grade-schooler can tell.

Apparently, a group of girls on the playground had found what they claimed were a bunch of "roly-poly" bugs...the bugs that roll themselves into a small ball for protection. T1 and another friend went to see this find and after looking at the "bugs" informed the girls that those weren't bugs, they were rocks. So much for education in the Commonwealth, huh? Anyway, the girls who had found the bugs insisted that they WERE bugs, not rocks. T1 took the initiative to try to "squish" one with her fingernail, and when the bug/rock wouldn't squish, she again pronounced it a rock. Nope, still a bug, said the girls. All right, said T1, let's take it to a teacher. She not only took it to her homeroom teacher, who said it was a rock, but to the school's gifted program teacher, who had the bad luck to be walking nearby at that moment, and he too said, yes those (there was more than one) are rocks. Satisfied that she had the authoritative opinion of TWO adults, she returned to the girls and reported their statements that these were not bugs, but rocks.

No, they are bugs, the girls insisted. At this point T1 became exasperated and told them they were crazy (I hope she used nicer words) and that everyone who had looked at them said they were rocks, and they couldn't be squished, so they were rocks.

Thankfully recess ended about then, and the great bug/rock debate was over.

So why am I relating this story to my blog family? Because as she was telling me this in the car I was thinking that my daughter had represented the "liberal elite" media in how she tried to figure out from different sources what these things were, and the girls who defended their opinion that the rocks were bugs, in spite of evidence and opinion to the contrary, represented Faux News.

Yes, I'm losing my mind, and the election can't be over soon enough. But if you STILL have people standing up, on camera, at McSame rallies whining because they can't trust Obama because he's an "Arab", then it is no surprise that their daughters and granddaughters are going to insist that a rock is a bug.