Warning: this post is only for those who get gooey over republican (small r) pomp and circumstance. Cold weather and snow aside, there is something so very cool too about the quiet before the storm–last night, looking down Pennsylvania Avenue, where no traffic as workmen finished setting up, seeing where the swearing in and all will be…There are the counter-events, but there is something great about a country that in some real sense comes together to celebrate this process every four years, whomever the victor is…