It’s my guess that many Blogtown readers don’t care about who won the school board races last night. If you don’t have kids of your own it can be a long stretch to imagine why you should care about who’s running a city’s schools. But if, on the off-chance, anybody asks you what you think of the elections, and you don’t just want to say “what elections?”, you might want to look super well-informed and of course, very strange, by reeling off this pre-rehearsed speech:

“I was very pleased to see grass-roots activist Ruth Adkins triumph over the incumbent, Doug Morgan. Her pledge to challenge the school board’s decision-making process to include more community input won me over, and what’s more, she really seems to believe in Portland’s public schools. I feel that if, ever, I have a child and if, ever, that child needs a school to go to, Ruth Adkins’ election last night means there’s a good chance that child’s interests will be better looked out for.”