Hail to the Chief

We don't have TV. Well, we have a TV in the bedroom that's not plugged in and that's basically acting as a DVD player stand (not plugged in or hooked up either). To watch TV, we stream everything over the internet or just download it. So, watching the Inauguration was a little problematic, since the net kept cutting out. I got to see part of it, though! What parts I was awake for (9:15 PST onward...).

It's a historic day. I'd be pithy, but I'm not quite awake yet. I'm proud to be an American, but I think I'm too tired to feel triumphant and all that. In any case, bye-bye, Bush, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Hello, change. That's kind of nice to say. Hello, change.

So, I'll leave you with this.


We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
--Thomas Jefferson