People protesting today, going crazy, don't seem to realize--we see this shit all the time in D.C. "For you, the day you traveled to D.C. to rally/protest/march was the most important day of your life. For us, it was Tuesday." And Wednesday. And Thursday. Etc. There's always somebody down here demonstrating something. The numbers get bigger some days, but overall it's just one of the irksome aspects of life we've come to accept in the D.C. metro area. Just living here, it's easy to see how politicians get jaded and apathetic. It's hard to be impressed by every single show of solidarity for one cause or another, right wing, left wing, which ever side of any issue, when it happens all the time. It becomes background noise, like the subway and the traffic.