Dr. Sanity explains why I feel so uncomfortable

Now I know why there is something unseemly about the coverage surrounding the Obama inauguration. There's a diagnosis for it!

This is emotional excess that disguises a severe, disabling anxiety; an anxiety that has been tenously held in check by the psychological denial that came before. It is as if the bizarre national depression the media have been hyping for the last eight years suddenly flipped into a full-blown mania--with all the euphoria, grandiose ideas and plans, delusions of grandeur, wildly impulsive spending, irritability and inappropriateness one sees in an acute manic episode.