No word on whether the president and first lady Laura Bush will attend (given the first couple hardly socialized past 9 o'clock during eight years in Washington, don't count on it), although they are listed as honored guests, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney, Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill Biden.
NOT A STEAK
Speaking of Prince George's County, we've opened the new 2009 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) calendar to find a handsome tan-haired cow named "Prince George," March's poster boy.
According to PETA, animal control officers in the Washington suburb "found Prince George in the forest, emaciated and chained to a log - apparently left there to starve. The officers rescued Prince George and tried to find him a new home, but everyone who agreed to take him admitted that they would eventually kill him for meat."
So PETA transported Prince George to a cow sanctuary in New Jersey, where he "is now a happy, friendly guy who loves to be scratched behind his ears."