Inauguration Day!

I'll be liveblogging Inauguration festivities today, but don't worry--I'll be keeping you updated on any and all federal management goodness that comes down the pike.

Washington will be basically shut down tomorrow, as President-elect Obama makes the formal and final transition from candidate to president. And all the attention will be focused on the man on the dais, rather than on the buildings sprawling around the Capitol, and the people who work in them. But at this moment, when the messages of the campaign begin to be translated into action, it's incredibly important to be aware of, as Walter Lippmann put it, the brutal realities of earth, and the people who work with those realities every day.