Thursday, January 20, 2005

A $4 million inauguration. When the president still wanted to be seen as responsible for the economy; when Iraq was not yet a full-scale inferno; when Abu Ghraib was still believed by America to be the fault of "a few bad apples"; when Harriet Miers had not yet been nominated to the Supreme Court; when climate change was a liberal notion, and Katrina was a name of an actress in silent movies; when airplanes were still not being properly inmspected; when there was no regulation of the finanacial sector; when trickle-down was still untainted by vulgar connotations and contempt. Them were the days.