The Inauguration Party

Beyoncé lip-syncing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the inauguration ceremony for the President was just one of the cheapening events of the weekend, also included were Jennifer Hudson loudly emoting an old soul-tune while the president and his wife danced sexy and slow. Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder and the gaily happy cast of 'Glee' also did their thing. It seemed like a dress-up party for rich adolescents.

Speaking of the utopian dreams of adolescence, the president's inauguration speech was about virtually nothing but big government doing for us things that we can never afford to do without economically wrecking the country, with no mention of adult self-sufficiency or not depending on the mommy-daddy state to do all things for us. Equality of opportunity, certainly, equality of results, a Marxian dream.

Will we ever again hear European classical music or at least classical American jazz at one of these events? 

Maybe we should just let big government continue to cheapen and decline, as long as the individual states increase their power and independence---as the Constitution intended.  Then they can party all they want in the White House and it won't much matter.