We won. Now what?

Something magic happens when musicians get together with the folks at La Blogotheque. The Fleet Foxes performance at the Grand Palais was no exception.

Earlier this week Gregg and Marcy described their experiences of the massive public safety failure DC’s incompetent police force and the incompetent Inaugural planners inflicted on hundreds of thousands of guests they’d invited to Washington for January 20.

So, if you blinked yesterday, you probably missed the ginormous fuss over President Obama’s do-over of the oath of office. Apparently, in the rush to conciliate people who didn’t realize that he became president automatically at noon while the quartet was-or-wasn’t playing, the Obama family didn’t have time to dig their bible out of their luggage. The missing Bible, the hostile justice, the screwed-up oath? Not the first time.

This is how it’s done. “People with bad ideas don’t get their way anymore.”

David Berman, founder of the indie cult band Silver Jews has dissolved the group and in a statement on his label’s website reveals a dark secret straight out of Star Wars: His father is lobbyist Richard Berman. Here’s what David has to say about his strange and ugly relationship with his father and how it shaped his life and art–and the lives of his fan. David’s pain and sense of socila justice and moral outrage is palpable in this moving statement:

Between himself, Joe Biden, and two cabinet secretaries, Barack Obama ended up taking four Democratic Senators out of Congress, all to be replaced through gubernatorial appointment. Now that the last of those has been filled, let’s recap how that worked out for us.

Bush staffers think that Obama’s speech was not nice enough to George.

Question of the Day: If Norm Coleman really thought he was getting his old Senate seat back, why would he be taking a job with the Republican Jewish Coalition?

Without it, all the stimulus in the world is nothing but bailing water out of a sinking ship without bothering to patch the hull.