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Updated with some new links
In a time when it is likely that more people than ever were able to watch the President’s Inauguration and Inaugural Address via the internet (so much so that people were urged to stay off their cell phones during the address and my own school throtled bandwidth to handle the extra traffic of multiple incoming video streams), it is truly remarkable that record-shattering numbers of people actually attended the ceremony in person.
The last Presidential Inauguration drew 300, 000 people, while the record was held by the 1965 Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, with a crowd of 1.2 million people. Initial attendence estimates of today’s Inauguration exceed 2 million people.
What’s interesting, is that it seems like people, and I am talking about people at-large, are beginning to care about politics; people are beginning to care about what is happening to them and to us. People care about who their President is.
“the time has come to set aside childish things”
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First of all, lawyer is a funny word. Most everyone pronounces it loiyer and it looks werid when written, even thought it makes perfect sense. Anyway…
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A couple in Seattle was asked to stop kissing at a baseball game because it made another fan uncomfortable. The catch: it was a gay couple and there was a straight couple engaged in more intense activity. Whack.
Here is an interesting story about an open marriage involving two couples and six chilrden.
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A bunch of interesting happenings on the presidential (finally) front.
Hopefully, my preferences aren’t too apparent… to be fair, there are still some situations in which I wouldn’t vote for Obama, but not many in which I would vote for for McCain (I’d say zero).
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She looks like she just wants to gum up the works at this point, kind of like taking her ball and leaving.
Here is a funny perspective and a sad one (though I doubt seriously Hilary actually approves).
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…What you don’t deserve is another election that is governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party, is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon…
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Sorry I’ve been intermittent in my posting. Things are busy here, I was in Santa Monica last weekend, and I’m getting ready to be gone for 8 days in the wilderness. Hopefully, I’ll get some pictures up at some point, but no promises.
Another reason I’ve been posting less is because I’ve been using google reader to keep track of links I want to remember. I can probably figure out a way to add things that interest me to this blog automatically… I’ll get back to you all on that.
(Update: I think I just got that to work. Now I just need to find an item I want to star…)
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