God Bless America - We Heart the Inauguration Hat

Dear heavens, I fricken love this country. Only in America could something like Facebook exist and only in America would someone start a Facebook Fan Group for Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat.




As of this morning, there are 87,159 fans. And counting. People are writing letters to the hat. People are posting poems - ballads, haiku, etc. - to the hat. People LOVE this hat. I am among these people, of course. How could I not?

• Is it an accessory? Yup.
• Is it flamboyant? Yup.
• Is it one of those "only you could pull that off" type things? Yup.
• Would other, more boring, sticklerish people perhaps call it "tacky"? Yup.
• Do I instead consider to be 'fierce'? Yup.
• Is it sparkly? Oooooh, yup yup yup.

With the answer to all these question a definitive, resounding "YES", then I clearly worship this hat.

Do you know there's a request for it to go to the Smithsonian? Not kidding. Look.

God Bless America.