on women and men

Right now Zack and I are eating blood oranges and watching the State of the Union. And while I believe that everything W says is either a lie or an outrage, it is really cool that he got to say "Madam Speaker." Way to go, Nancy Pelosi. I'm sure San Francisco misses you.

So then I had to explain to Zack why a woman has never been speaker before and why we've never had a female president and he said, "Well that's stupid, Mommy. You run the house better than any man could." (Sorry exhub.) And DUH.

And as Zack is saying all this, I realize that he's actually really disgusting in some ways (I'll not elaborate here to save him from embarrassment but let's just say even Ursy left the room) and that Michaela is actually really not disgusting for the most part. (Although, then she showed me what it looks like when her Tamagachi poops and how the pooper scooper works.)

I'm not really worried about what Michaela is gonna be like when she grows up. She could be president for sure. But Zack...all I want to do is make sure he grows up to be like one or all of my 4 favorite men (just in case you don't know who you are - one lives with me, one eats sushi with me, one is a twin and lives too far away, and one is actually mad at me at the moment for not leaving well enough alone...sorry) and not end up being the kind of man that contributes to the fact that it's 2007 and the president has just said, for the first time, "Madam Speaker."