A Farewell to George Bush: Play the Video Game!

Muntazar al-Zaidi, what have you started? As the 43rd President leaves office, you can send him on his way with shoes...and also candies, daisies, eggs, and weapons of mass destruction.

Or, if you prefer, you can help Dubya pack up the Oval Office (don't forget the Osama bin Laden dartboard).

A Farewell to George Bush: Does Torture Carry a Cost?

Before we close the door on the Bush Presidency....

For political reasons, there will be no enquiry into the illegal actions of the Bush Administration, let alone an attempt to hold its officials accountable before a criminal court. That makes it even more important that the public investigation --- first as a study of current politics and US foreign policy, later as history --- of how the Executive could bypass Congress, the US courts, and international law to sanction torture should be thorough, ongoing, and unrelenting.

Keith Olbermann, in his provocative and incisive manner, offers a summary: "Mr President-Elect, you have been handed the beginning of [our] future, use it to protect our children and our distant descendants from anything like this ever happening again."

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Inauguration Day: America Is Getting Barack-Roll'd

Our little-brother site, The State of the United States, has put up a classic video combining the excitement of the new President, 1980s BritPop, and the power of the Internet.

Inauguration Day and the Day After: Scott Lucas on British Radio

A flurry of chats with radio stations this morning, picking up on both the excitement and American pride of the inauguration of the 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama, and on the challenges that he faces from The Day After the Big Party:

1. A long interview with Chris Mills of Kerrang! Radio on both the departing President ("Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out") and on the incoming President ("The speed of politics means it will be a short honeymoon").

2. An interview with Darryl Murphy of BRMB Radio on the symbolism of Obama's inauguration --- it's on-line.

3. Talked this morning to LBC Radio's Nick Ferrari, as he covers Inauguration Day from Washington.

4. And then finished off, for the moment, with an interview on Smooth Radio.

A Farewell to George Bush: Katrina's Lasting Epitaph

No, it's not Photo-shopped. From the mistake of Sky News graphics, during Hurricane Katrina, a moment of eternal insight: