What is the reason we are not having the inauguration day events today?

[customerserviceguy]

55. In this case, I don't really care

But it's an illustration of how religion really does sometimes screw things up for other people. In Bergen County, NJ, there's no non-grocery or non-restaurant shopping allowed to be open. It would suck to be an orthodox Jew, and not have either Saturday or Sunday to get what you need on the weekend.

Also, I had to wait until noon Sunday to buy a few six-packs of locally produced beer at a supermarket in North Carolina that I wasn't going to drink until I got back to NY. A perfectly legal product, being purchased by a sober individual who was of age to buy it, and because of religion, was forced to wait for an arbitrary period roughly corresponding to the time needed to worship an invisible skyfather.

I remember the Inaugural Address from four years ago when the President included nonbelievers in his speech. It would have been a good time to break the tradition now, but he passed on it. It's funny when you consider that most all of the rest of the Western world holds elections on Sundays, when people have all day to get out and vote.