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20Jan/090

Happy Inauguration Day!

truth, justice, and the American way.*

Returning to the Oval Office: truth, justice, and the American way.

Today's the day. Our first black President will take the oath of office with his hand on a Bible owned by the man who ended slavery in the U.S.

What a time to take over. W will fly away from the White House in his chopper, leaving his successor with an enormous mess.

Expectations for Obama are crazy. He's not a savior, but he is replacing cynacism with optimism, faith with reason, distrust of science with tech saavy, Machiavellian machinations with transparency.  And that's a great way to start.

Celebrations in San Francisco, this wonderful bastion of liberalism, will be in full swing.  Some even started a little early, making civic upgrades to usher in our new leader. Well done, team, well done.

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Bush Street signs in San Francisco were changed to Obama down the entire length of Bush Street.

[Update: says Gidge "Thank artist Alex Zecca. He stickered the street signs from Presido to Grant... but police have made him remove them."]

* For more on Superman's famous line, see Truth, justice and (fill in the blank).