Evidence of a new irregular verb courtesy of an interview with Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition of America, full-time Washington lobbyist and mother:

Would you like to see American products like television shows flourish in Baghdad as well?

Oh, no. I hope they don’t show ‘‘The Osbournes’’ over there … Shows like that wouldn’t exist if mothers stayed home with their kids and supervised what they watched.

But you yourself are a working mother. Do you think you could have been happy as a full-time housewife?

Probably not. Probably it would not have been enough for me. I always had a desire to make a difference. That is why I love the legislative process, where you can make a difference.

Thus we have,

I am out there making a difference; You should really be at home with the kids; She is undermining the moral foundations of our society.

Such double standards are nothing new in the world of Ladies Against Women, of course, but the barefaced cheek of it is still irritating.