A graph of Google's query volume on Inauguration Day—with a large drop during Obama's oath and speech. It's like when crime stopped during the Beatles' set on the Ed Sullivan Show, but for 2009. View Image ›
The best single image in a day full of great ones: the Obamas and the Bidens bid the Bushes farewell. View Image ›
Commemorate our 44th president with unusual and borderline-racist trinkets. Your grandchildren will never know that Obama masks weren't actually distributed at the official swearing-in. Read More ›
The NYT has a fun, extensive gallery featuring portraits of Obama's gang. I posted Reggie Love, because he's the coolest, but there are 51 more to peruse. I find Timothy Geithner's Blue Steel pretty amusing. View Image ›
A photoset from the Inauguration dress rehearsal held yesterday in D.C. The fake Obama got to give a (6-word) address and everything, which makes him the closest real-life Dave that we may ever know. You can balance the budget and save that childrens' shelter, Staff Sgt. Derrick Brooks! I know you can! View Image ›
Good news update: Damon Weaver, the famed 10-year-old political journalist, has finally secured press credentials to Obama's Inauguration! He raised $8,000 to attend the Inauguration but was denied access by the Obama Transition Team. Fortunately, the Internet and the Miami Heat have triumphed, and Joe Biden's homeboy will hopefully get the interview he deserves. Magic happens, friends. Read More ›
Outspoken gay activist Melissa Etheridge seems surprisingly okay with Proposition 8 supporter Rick Warren delivering the invocation at Obama's inauguration. Melissa, come any closer to our window and we'll shut it on your purpose driven fingers. Not cool.
President-elect Obama has chosen Proposition 8 supporter and minister of the evangelical Saddleback Church to give the invocation at his inauguration. You may remember him for his pseudo-debate on “faith issues” with Obama and McCain. Read More ›
If Obama's Marxist suit doesn't work out, there are plenty of designers ready to dress him at a moment's notice. I think most of these sketches are too fussy for Obama, but I don't mind the James Bond feel of this one. View Image ›
