http://denverpartyride.com/events/party-bus-for-haunted-house-tours/resize-haunted-house-2 … when there is good political humor. Here is the comedians‘ take on the inauguration.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Always a sign of health…
22-Jan-09Gen O Inauguration Survival Kit
21-Jan-09Walking back to Bethesda yesterday along Wisconsin Avenue after the inauguration, I chanced upon a plastic bag left on a street corner. For various reasons, the gloves inside the bag caught my eye, and I decided to take the bag rather than leave it there. It contained a “Generation Obama” inauguration survival kit: three ziploc […]
Sting’s Beard
21-Jan-09By the way, Sting, I like the beard. Let’s do something for Hairy-Americans. (When will be get our next president with facial hair, I wonder? I bet it will be a long time. The fight against beardism goes on.)
The Neighborhood Ball.
21-Jan-09Last night I was at the home of an elderly Italian gentleman and found, to my surprise, one of the inaugural balls on television (did they do this in the past?). There was Beyonce, Sting, Mariah Carey and the like with Barack and Michelle and friends dancing in a little special stage for them. […]
Barack Obama’s speech.
21-Jan-09One of the reasons why it felt so different was that he was asking us to do something. It wasn’t like a Bill Clinton speech with a laundry list of ideas, nor like a Bush speech about a threat we face. Both of those were elements, but the general impression I got from the speech […]
Right now…
21-Jan-09… the internet is probably doubling its content. Of the two million (or so) people there at the inauguration yesterday, I had the feeling that about a million were going to go home and post their photos on their blog. Everyone had a camera, and you could tell that many people were hunting around for […]
At the omphalos kosmou.
21-Jan-09As for the beard and baseball cap, “wear the outer garment of the red state, and the inner garment of the mystic way.”
The Inauguration of Barack Obama.
20-Jan-09I started the day by walking to the Bethesda Metro station, where I took a train towards the Mall. The platform was crowded, and the train, when it arrived, was almost full, and was completely full by the time it pulled out of the station. Bethesda is the last stop before the train enters the […]
Just to be clear: there’s nothing wrong with isolationism, and its intellectual form, willful ignorance and concentration on one’s own affairs; these are normal in human life. Everyone knows their own business and is ignorant about other people’s. This is why self-determination is good. But isolationist ignorance and aggressive imperial intervention can’t be […]
God, this man is nothing but good news.
22-Jan-09Cerquilho A NYT piece on Obama’s lifting of Bush administration secrecy rules here. The gist: The new president effectively reversed a post-9/11 Bush administration policy making it easier for government agencies to deny requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act, and effectively repealed a Bush executive order that allowed former presidents or their heirs […]