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Around inauguration time an overnight industry sprung up peddling Obamarabillia to the souvenir-happy folk descending on Washington D.C. and the folks who couldn’t make it to the capital but still wanted a concrete reminder of the event. Now that they’ve had a little time on their hands, DIY craft fans have had their say in [...]

For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, [...]

It’s inauguration day, the second sort-of holiday in a row for many Americans, and as with every festive occasion in our great land, it’s a perfect occasion to peddle completely useless gifts. Over the last few days we’ve witnessed a veritable internet groundswell of items about Barack Obama memorabilia (hereafter “Obamarabilia” for short). In a [...]