It's official.

I now have 50,136 words, as reported by the official NaNoWriMo robot word counters.

I'M A WINNER! Yay!

What do I do now? I study for my Linux+ exam on Friday and fail!

So I heard this on the Peter Heck Show last night, but forgot to talk about it, even though I wanted to, but then I saw it on Digg just now, and it reminded me about it! To put it simply:

Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Ban Parents From Spanking Their Kids, Even at Home

And that's no hyperbole or misleading title. It seems that some brilliant Massachusetts nurse decided to submit a bill that would ban parents from spanking their kids. According to her quote, directly from that page, without any paraphrasing, she calls it "domestic violence" to spank your kid.

"I think it's ironic that domestic violence applies to everyone except the most vulnerable — children," said Kathleen Wolf, who wrote the bill.

Amazing... And what's even more amazing is that the lawmakers are actually looking into it. They're actually going to debate this. As in, they're actually treating this like something that could very well be passed into a law.

I don't care who you are, or where you're from, but anyone who thinks this bill is a good thing is clinically insane or doesn't have any children, or aren't around kids who are totally off the walls, doing whatever they want because there's been no firm punishment for them doing something wrong. If you don't believe me, all you have to do it get on Xbox Live and play a round of Halo social match, or any game where people can talk. Heck, for me, I can just look at some of my own extended family and see how screwed up my cousins are because "spanking is too harsh". I think there's a reason that some of them have criminal records and I don't, and it's not because I was just so awesome and caring of others to not be a total idiot. I'm pretty sure it has everything to do with being set straight when I'm doing something intentionally wrong when I was young, so that when I grew up, I could eventually think for myself and go "hey, you know what, that was good for me!"

If you don't correct your children, they're going to be that way FOREVER. They'll keep spiraling downward and get more and more out of control and harder to correct until they finally get old enough to do things on their own and then it'll be too late for you to do anything, and they go out and get themselves arrested for doing stupid stuff.

But, hey! We've got the good ol' liberal left Democrats out there fighting for the rights that the evil conservative Republicans are stripping away from us, one by one!

Er... Wait-a-minute... o.O