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From The Big Picture.

Yesterday was a historic day. On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America – the first African-American ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-Chief. The event was witnessed by well over one million attendees in chilly Washington D.C., and by many millions more through coverage on television and the Internet. Collected here are photographs of the event, the participants, and some of the witnesses around the world. (48 photos total)

Fox News never disappoints.

(via J-Walk)

(via Buzzfeed)

First cat video I’ve posted since the Bush Administration.

(via Arbroath)

A quick question as I revive my sleep deprived brain with large quantities of caffeine.

Approximately how many miles do you currently live from the town/city where you were born?

A believer is a bird in a cage, a Freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. At present, owing to the inroads that have been made by liberals and infidels, most of the churches pretend to be in favor of religious liberty. Of these churches we will ask this question: How can a man, who conscientiously believes in religious liberty, worship a God who does not? They say to us: We will not imprison you on account of your belief, but our God will. We will not burn you because you throw away the sacred Scriptures, but their author will. We think it an infamous crime to persecute our brethren for opinion’s sake, — but the God, whom we ignorantly worship, will on that account, damn his own children forever.

Robert Green Ingersoll – “Individuality” (1873)