It’s usually easy to tell

President-elect Obama departed his Hyde Park house at 2:42 pm this afternoon, arriving at his transition office in downtown chicago at 3:O3 pm. Just before he left his house, a police officer stationed a block away stopped two local residents at a concrete barrier.

“Let em go, they live here!” another police officer shouted. Then, he added: “you only stop them if they live right next door, or if they look like suicide bombers or something.”

— Ana Marie Cox