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The single best thing about today is that it will prove that the suitcase nuke doesn't exist.

What more tempting target could there possibly be than an incoming, popular president, surrounded by millions of Americans packed into a tight space, and a nation that has put a lot of emotional chips into this pot?

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Excellent.

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After the speech, the NBC coverage seemed to dwell on the "sixty years ago, couldn't be served in a local restaurant' part. So did NPR for just a moment, but not as long as NBC, who went on to interview a black schoolboy about what this means to him.

The guy on KTAR was harping about an alleged jab at white people at the end of the benediction, claiming that all the blogs were talking about it. The blogs he reads, anyway.

NPR has since moved on to what Obama said about relations with the Muslim world, and the Iraq war.

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So I had another crazy bus encounter, this time with a spaz who was all smiles, but was alone. He'd mime playing the drums and flail about, and kept saying "I'm a drummer! I get kicked out of every band!" He mistook me for a lady and said my nipples were sweating. I moved away from him, and other people called for him to get kicked off the bus.

So maybe being giddy all the time isn't really enough.

Also, I stopped by the Starbucks today and had a pretty good spontaneous conversation with two customers and two clerks, all female. The customers were complaining about the arcane language Starbucks uses for sizes, and I said it's not so bad to order a "Tall Mocha", or whatever she was ordering, because both orders are only two words, and word count is what makes Starbucks orders obnoxious. They agreed, and I told them the story of Excelsior, the coffee chain in Japan that is exactly like Starbucks except the sizes make sense. Then the clerk explained that there used to be two sizes, "Short" and "Tall", but then Grande and Venti were each added in turn, and then Short was discontinued. We all marveled at how languages evolve, and the customers left with their order, at which point a second clerk was putting out a display for the promotion where you can get a free tall coffee if you volunteer for five hours. I asked if there were any places nearby that needed volunteers, as I couldn't travel far, and she didn't know.

So everything turned out OK in the end.