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...thought so too, until the weeks of waiting turned to months and the reality of the situation set in. No one cared. No one was even going to give us the courtesy of a response - not even that promised form e-mail, for Pete's sake. For a while longer, we just waited. It did occur to us that a lot of the jobs we wanted were being filled pretty quickly. Condoleezza Rice and Tommy Thompson swiped two of the really prime spots right off the bat, and it took us a few days to get over that disappointment...
...past year, Macapagal-Arroyo has been quietly gathering a team of people and a collection of ideas for what to do if she took over the country. The new President said she accepted her job with "a sense of trepidation and a sense of awe." For her country's sake, one hopes she also has a sense of urgency...
...Threski is also a temperamental bird and it is likely he will migrate toward other destinations. For his sake, this would be a good idea. Sources indicate that the poor fools on Bow Street have already hired cronies to traverse the sea and capture the errant bird, so that he can be resoldered atop the Lampoon Castle. Adding insult to injury, he would be forced to share his old prison with a shoddily constructed, fake plastic imposter...
...into the theological issue of whether grace can be achieved through faith alone, but let's say, for the sake of argument, that you can achieve grace through the good work you do here on earth. Does it really matter, then, if Nelson Mandela cheats on his taxes? (He doesn't, by the way.) Does it matter that Mother Teresa was nasty to her kid brother? (I'm making that one up, too.) The idea here is that if you perform great and lasting public service, perhaps it doesn't really matter what the heck you're like in private...
...know I sound like a killjoy. But the inauguration has become like so many other contemporary American holidays - that is, a celebration for celebration's sake. Too many of our holidays, like Christmas and Thanksgiving, have become deracinated consumer celebrations unconnected to any traditional meaning...