I have a friend that is married to a 'red man' and there were a number of people that were of mixed or non- white races -- and they were amused by the brown sticks around, yellow will be mellow...etc. they didn't find it racists. and since it included white finds right ( paraphrase) it felt like he was saying we all have lots of work to do .

From the current coverage on MSNBC, Cindy McCain seems like a very cold person, or is it just me?

Four out of five of the last presidents have been left-handed. The number overall is like, way lopsided.

Wonder why?

Because we're so awesome?

I'm sure that there were heaters on the platform.

I mostly refrained from commenting on the religious elements since the religious elements in public ceremonies have bothered me since at least 8th grade graduation. I feel that this country, in which we have (theoretical) separation of church and state, ministers, priests, rabbis or any other religious leader do not belong at my public grammar school or the inauguration.

Not just you.

Though he weirded me out when he was talking about "committing [the Obamas] to your care, lord" because isn't that what you say at funerals?

I had the same thought as tommyrot about that.

I didn't know he was left-handed either!

I just had a celebratory sip of champagne... and then turned it into a mimosa, because, yum. Er, I'm at home, by the by.

I'm liking Hillary's hair today. Nice cut and color.

the J-word

yeah, I am not a fan of this phrasing. Jesus isn't a bad word. Even if you take offense at the actions and words of many who claim to follow his teachings, did Jesus really offend? Is his name offensive? That phrasing puts it out like a word that cannot be said without causing hurt or harm, a word or name that in and of itself will offend. Really? F-Word. N-Word. C-Word.

well, my only point was that while I didn't mind Landry's (was that his name?) comments - that I personally found them mild and good-natured, but I could easily see how some people might be bothered by them - neither did I find Warren to be out of line. Warren seemed...mild and good-natured, I suppose.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it felt like one standard was applied to Warren but not to the other guy.

For reference, the stuff about being black, yellow, red, etc. was a 60s/70s counter to a phrase in a Zora Neale Hurston story, "Story in Harlem Slang,"

where two male hustlers are in a mock argument on a Harlem street corner. Broke and hungry, the blowhard dandies put on a show for each other, howling in the wind about how they've each just landed rich, beautiful women. Hurston catches not only the colorful bravado of the language, but every burlesqued pose and gesture.

"Who? Me? Long as you been knowing me, Sweet Back, you ain't never seen me with nothing but pe-olas. I can get any frail eel I want to. How come I'm up here in New York? You don't know, do you? Since youse dumb to the fact, I reckon I'll have to make you hep. I had to leave from down south'cause Miss Anne used to worry me so bad to go with me. Who, me? Man, I don't deal in no coal. Know what I tell 'em? If they's white, they's right! If they's yellow, they's mellow! If they's brown, they can stick around. But if they come black, they better git way back! Tell 'em bout me!"