a long weekend

Sorry to bother all of you with the Obama day, just some local considerations, I will surely write about it next week. Monday is a Federal holiday, everything will be shut for the Martin Luther King day, but the country will be on hold till Tuesday morning at the moment of crowning. In the center where I do my investigation, they will screen the presidential speech live in the big conference room at 11 30. There are no meetings or lectures, if there was anything scheduled it got postponed (this actually happened to me). Everybody is expecting a great speech, it seems he made a spectacular one on race last March and people are waiting for something like that. We shall see, tv mediation being suspended for few minutes. My goodness, CNN is so silly! it is like the MTV of the news. Skipping among all the usual self-serving journalists' chats ( security, traffic -autos and mobile phone-, dresses, parties, celebrities) I managed to listen to a couple of interviews in which Obama spoke plainly about the situation, basically warning that economic situation is serious and it will probably get even worse. It seems to me a significant rhetorical shift from what we have grown to be accoustumed in recent and less recent years. The presidential speech will probably be set on higher notes.