I see from the Code Pink stickers slapped on countless jackets outside that the old Sixties slogan has been re-tooled for these more sexually responsible times: Make Out, Not War.
Grammarians will tell you that sometimes adverb location matters. For instance, “She gave birth naturally” does not mean the same thing as “Naturally, she gave birth.” So we turn to Obama’s oath of office, which was dutifully botched by its administrator, Chief Justice John Roberts. He was supposed to say to Obama, “I will faithfully [...]
The new White House website. (H/T commenter Dunedweller)
Yes, we’ve gotten the gang together again. Jim Poniewozik, Michael Grunwald and I will be liveblogging the inauguration, so keep that laptop open and come over and join us. Here’s the link.
…an inaugural message from Langston Hughes: Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed– Let it be that great [...]
The city of Washington has mostly done a fantastic job accomodating at least a million visitors for the Inauguration, but what on earth were they thinking making people pay to ride the Metro today? Unlike many subway systems, riders have to insert tickets upon entering and exiting the system–a trial for visitors to figure out [...]
The Vice President will attend the inauguration in a wheel chair, completing his transformation into Mr. Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
This would be infuriating if it weren’t so pathetic. I could go through this line by line, but let’s just take the top-line talking point, which John Boehner’s office has been peddling to willing journo-stenographers: that the stimulus package is going to cost $275,000 per new job created. Well. First of all $300 billion of [...]
