Get yer tickets! Primmmmmme tickets!

But really, since its a once-in-a-lifetime event,and that's priceless, $20,000 is a bargain!

/sarcasm

(We're planning to stay as far away from DC during the inauguration as possible, and not mainly for political reasons.)

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We can only hope that things like this actually materialize from Obama's ascendancy:
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2009/01/09/askthepilot304/index.html

On a slightly different note, have a look at this photograph. It was taken on an oceanside road behind the Sofitel there in Dakar. "Obama and Biden," says the oversize spray paint, "The New World Bilders [sic]." The picture was taken about two days after the election. Such a sentiment wouldn't have surprised me so much in, say, Anglophonic Ghana or, for obvious reasons, in Kenya. But in French West Africa? The next evening at the Dakar airport, three men begged me to give them the "Obama '08" campaign pin I was wearing on my lapel. Without reading too much into it, are things like this symptomatic, maybe, of a sudden and renewed respect for the United States? Heaven knows we could use it.

Tamiflu

If you get the flu this year, Tamiflu may not be a viable option: the NYT reports that while only 11% of the flu strains were resistant to it last year, this year 99% of them are. This reflects a trend of Tamiflu-resistant strains found in Europe last year, according to the article.

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Turning off the Christmas lights every year is a little like the first part here for me. Holiday's over, and we've got a couple months of darkness without the lights to cheer us up to look forward to.