The collective intelligence of the lefty protest chimps concentrated into a single message of vulgar spite.

I left the parade once Bush passed, thinking that was it and having appointments to keep. I was surprised when I got home an hour later to turn on the TV and see the parade was still rolling on with marching bands from East Elbow, America and beyond.

The next day, I read the major media and found that most had reported confrontations between the police and protestors, including the one I saw in front of the Willard. Of all the accounts of the Willard confrontation I read, two thirds presented the confrontation neutrally, as if it just kinda happenned. One third presented the police as the aggressors. Usually the story opened with the police spraying the protestors with pepper spray, as if they just decided to do it on a whim. In no story was the provocation of the protestors mentioned. If you got your facts from major newspapers or television, you would have gotten a skewed view of what happenned. And it's always skewed to the left.

I spent about three hours in the freezing cold waiting to see Bush at the inauguration. He passed in ten seconds all buttoned up in his armored limo. I never saw Bush but I did see Clinton. That's a poor trade but I still was there to witness history.