Ok-- to this old cynic we have to admit yesterday was a charmer and The First Couple far better in every way than the JFK/Jackie duet. JFK's inauguration speech so Mad Ave and nothing came from the heart, then there was his wife's obsession with choosing plates and carpets and clothes. 2009ers say Who Cares! Michelle doesn't appear to!

Yesterday I read some so-called memoirs such as Glass Castle and a couple other about wacky parents and abuse and/or addiction and wonder how the authors have such total recall of actual conversations decades ago. These appear to be as fictionalized as the Frey book. I suspect some ambitious editor at a publishing house advised the writers to embellish these sellers! I mean do they think we're stupid?

Welcome Back to LuciasSymposium which now has a number 2 after it because of change of email address. You can always refer to the original LuciasSymposium.blogspot which has the usual ocean of opinions we always see on the Internet. We still have the aim of dissenting all orthodoxies which has a nice ring to it.

The inauguration this week, or should one say deification of another leader; Obama is smarter than the rest and the fact he went to Harvard verrrrry comforting. We do love seeing how happy Biden is-- though his wife has the dopey grin of a cheerleader.