Obama may get to keep his Blackberry after all, but his staff will be banned from instant messaging, and they're grumbling about it. [Politico]
Fortunately, the man arrested on Friday in Mississippi for posting an assassination threat against Obama in an internet chat room seems to have been catastrophically incompetent. "I'm stuck here in Mississippi, and I'll need bus fare or some way of getting to Washington. I don't own a gun, so maybe someone can give me one. And I'll need a leak in the secret service to get a close up shot, somewhere close to the podium, since I've never fired a gun," Steven Joseph Christopher allegedly wrote. [Chicago Sun-Times]
How Obama's inaugaral address got written. (Hint: not in five minutes on the back of an envelope the day before yesterday.) [Marc Ambinder]
The incoming president's behind-the-scenes team are split on whether to investigate allegations of torture made against the Bush administration. [Newsweek]
"We're trading a dogmatic president for one who's shopping for a dog. It feels good." But who will expert pun-deviser Maureen Dowd be rude about from Tuesday onwards? [New York Times]
