Okay. So we were watching the debate last night with teachers. And our style (that is, hub and I) is to not just watch the debates but interact that that cold, icy screen. When Palin said that Biden's wife's teacher reward would be in heaven, my husband literally shouted out something like "HOW ABOUT BETTER TEACHER PAY NOW INSTEAD OF WAITING TILL TEACHERS DIE!". Started laughing because, yeah, why wait to reward a teacher AFTER HE OR SHE DIES????? Bwahahahahahhaah. From Radar

let's focus for a second on what was clearly the weirdest moment of last evening's proceedings. It comes in the response round of the "heartbeat away" question. No, it's not the part where Governor Palin pops out with "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again"—although you can imagine her handlers thinking, "Sure, let's drill that line into her. Hell, it worked for Reagan!". It's at about the 4:15 mark of this clip, where she says "I know you're passionate about education, with your wife being a teacher for thirty years, and God bless her, her reward is in heaven, right?" Even Joe Biden, who did an excellent job of pretending to smile at everything Palin said, was barely able to conceal a look of "Are you f**** kidding me, crazy lady?" But then she gave a shout out to her brother's third grade class, which was so adorable that it completely made everyone in the room forget about the fact that this woman could potentially be the President of the United States. So here's a shout out of our own: Hey, third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary, don't break your back studying; apparently, it's not really a requirement for success anymore.

P.S. I didn't think about this till later, but you know how utterly CRASS that statement is? Biden's first wife DIED. Words fail.