Tag Archives: Inauguration

O-Day (+.5 → ∞)

Being There Hey, who’s that? Is that… is that John Kennedy? Oh my god, look: It’s John F. Kennedy!.. No, wait, that’s not him, that’s the other one. The sick one. Overheard on National Mall, 1/20/09 It should be noted that “being a part of history” and actually witnessing an historical occurrence are, at least [...]

A Belated Dispatch from Obamaland

Before We Begin: A Preamble to What Happened For the vast majority of the 4.8 bazillion people that flooded our nation’s capital yesterday, this was as close as we were ever going to get to President Elect Barack Hussein Obama: A trailer-sized Jumbotron (one of many, with accompanying gigantic floating speaker boxes) adorning the National [...]