Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States today. I wish him well. Today is not a day to pick nits. I will say that I have little doubt that Ronald Reagan’s disposition and its effect on huge swaths of the population hastened the demise of the socioeconomic malaise the … Read more
Well, here we are, kids. Tonight is George W. Bush’s last night in the President’s Bedroom. I don’t have much to say about it—certainly nothing rivaling the extensive treatments, both positive and negative, he’s getting elsewhere online. I voted for him twice, somewhat less enthusiastically in 2004 than in 2000, but haven’t thought of myself … Read more
For those of you awakening from a coma, or a three-month bourbon- and blow-fueled bender for that matter: we’re about to inaugurate a new, audaciously hopeful president. Yeah, yeah, history being made and glorious bright new marvelous direction for the country and all that, but there are some conspicuous, and frankly embarrassing, omissions from all … Read more