Aretha’s “let it ring, let it ring…” gave me goosebumps, but The Hat really needed a bigger role. I would rigged blinking LED lights to the tips of the bow and then have it shoot off fireworks at the end. But I suppose that would be undignified…
I thought Obama’s swearing-in flub was due to nerves, but Adam Liptak suggests Professor Obama caught John Roberts committing (yet another) constitutional law error. Gots to appreciate the legal geekery involved in parsing this exchange.
Speaking of geekery, Air Force One makes sense. It’s an airplane from the Air Force for the Number One person in charge. Got it! Marine One–it’s a ship for the…no,wait. It’s a helicopter flown by Marines. I never did understand the Marines, but who cares, it took Bush away. The real name stumper = Special Air Mission 28000. wtf?
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hurray for the copter that took bush away! america, we finally got that monkey off our back!