Innauguration Day!

Well, today's inauguration seemed to go off with-out a hitch, besides the two old guys that passed out during lunch, but there were some awkward moments on stage. The poem... do... I... need... to... elaborate... here? They say to speak slow and enunciate very clearly but come-on! You're a poet lady, don't you know anything about inflection?

Even weirder, I thought, was Rick Warren. I personally think he's pretty weird in general, and seems kind of sleazy, like one day he'll probably end up like the guy from New Life church, who once raked down $130k for doing he lord's work, and now sells insurance door-to-door after a homosexual prostitution scandal. But back to the point, did anyone notice how Warren pronounced the President's kids names? "Muh-leee-yah, and SASHA!" The first one was straight from the mouth of a southern baptist pastor, and the latter sounded like a guest being welcomed to the Tyra Banks Show. I don't really know where I'm going with this besides the fact that it sounded weird, and creeped me out a bit.

Obviously, the benediction was kick-ass. Rev. Joseph Lowry is so old and harmless, it seemed it was going to be your usual uneventful prayer, but then something awesome happened. He began to riff on different skin tones and rhyming ways to say how they are okay: "...we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right." My wife will shout immature at this, but it too obviously reminds me of an old saying I learned in college when trying to save on the water bill ("if its brown, send it down, if its yellow, let it mellow")... anyone? No? Okay fine.