20Jan
It wasn’t a typical morning for me today. Usually I crawl out of bed, yawn and scratch my unmentionables before blindly picking out my wardrobe and jumping in the shower. This morning was unique in the way that I didn’t yawn. In fact, I immediately tuned into the events of the day as we were going to be inaugurating the 44th President of the United States. The anticipation was like going to your first middle school dance where the boys stand on one side, the girls the other and the cool kids were in the parking lot with a bottle of mom’s 10 year old brandy. It wasn’t just the fact that I voted for Obama that made the anticipation so exciting. It’s because we all get to wave goodbye to Bush. Forget the low approval rating and the indiscretions. The only real impressive thing he did in office was nimbly avoiding a thrown pair of shoes at a press conference (George, if you read this, I have an opening on my corporate dodge ball team so feel free to ping me). I actually don’t dislike Bush, I don’t really know him, but he was a below average president at… Read the rest