It's Not Because Seattle Doesn't Care

"I, Barack Hussein Obama" by Ronald Holden.

Since at initial glance this latest news reflects in a potentially negative manner upon the good people of Seattle, we'll spin it right round, baby. The Seattle market may have had the lowest inauguration ceremony viewership in the country yesterday, but it's because we were all watching online or gathered in large groups at bars to celebrate Obama's message of unity in practice as well as in spirit. We're very tech-savvy in this part of the world, don't you know, so it was nothing to us to click 'play' on MSNBC's streaming video of the occasion. We also like to drink, and it's been depressingly foggy here lately, which was all the more reason to head to a bar at 8 a.m. The Raleigh-Durham folks are clearly haters of love and fun and fellowship, as they had the highest viewership in the country.