January
19th 2009
Posted under: American history, happy endings
See ya, chump!
Some interesting news and views about the Baracktastic Husseineriffic Obamapalooza tomorrow:
- Katty Kay says, c’mon, America: leave the royalism to the pros, in “The Coronation of King Obama.”
- Via Feminist Law Professors, Patricia Williams says that the mass enthusiasm about Obama’s inauguration is due to giddiness that the reign of Mr. Worst President Ever is almost over, and cautions Obama and the rest of us not to let Emperor C+ Augustus off the hook so easily in “Drowning Our Sorrows, Lifting a Glass.”
- TalkLeft posted a link to the menu for tomorrow’s traditional luncheon, and all of the recipes. Yummy! (But…canned cherries? Really?)
- Rock-solid evidence that Joe Biden knows he’s got the booby prize. (Please grow up, Biden family. This is just embarrassing, and no one believes you.)
I’m not teaching tomorrow, so I’ll have it parked in front of the set for the inauguration ceremony and the big speech. I’ve watched every inauguration since Ronald Reagan’s second in 1985, with the exception of George W. Bush’s second inauguration in 2005. It’s good to want to turn on the teevee again, isn’t it?
As of Tuesday afternoon–can everyone just get back to work already? I mean, it’s not like the dudes in Washington don’t have a lot on their plates, aside from phesant and duck with the sour cherry chutney, right?
Adam on 19 Jan 2009 at 10:08 pm #
Funny how skippable the ’05 inaugural was, eh? The only State of the Union speeches I have missed within memory (and when in the country) were some of those latter ones from W. as well. Just couldn’t take any more mangling of the English language, from both the malapropism and doublespeak ends….
Historiann on 20 Jan 2009 at 7:19 am #
I had worked a lot on local 2004 campaigns and given a lot of money to Kerry, so the ’05 inaugural would have been salt in the wounds. I had one Dem friend who told me shortly after election day ’04 that he was looking forward to inauguration day. I was shocked, until he explained: on inauguration day ’05, we’ll finally be on the downward slope of the Bush presidency!
cgeye on 20 Jan 2009 at 11:34 am #
I checked out starting 2005, too — almost wrecked my health volunteering for Kerry.
I’m gingerly being hopeful, beyond all the pomp. Might go out for Obama cupcakes latter (but will probably get the red velvet)
Erica on 20 Jan 2009 at 1:10 pm #
I am a happy chickadee today. First it snows in South Carolina (probably made most of SC miserable, but made me purely giddy), then we ALL got rid of President Crazypants.
Canned cherries probably taste better than fresh cherries in January. (Or at least, they’re more likely to be American-grown cherries, and/or don’t cost $10 per pound.)
Historiann on 20 Jan 2009 at 3:40 pm #
Erica–good to hear from you. Enjoy your snow!
I think you’re right that they’re better than fresh cherries, but in a cherry chutney I’d probably go with dried Michigan sour cherries, soaked in the liquor of your choice.
Fruit in cans is just a totally different substance than fresh fruit.