January 21, 2005 Why does anyone need $40 million for a party? I heard that's how much the inaugaration (or however you spell it) cost yesterday. You know, in college, parties for our fraternity usually costed about $500 for "gas" (code for beer). And that was a LOT of beer. My wedding had almost as much booze AND a DJ AND food, but it still didn't approach the $40 million mark. Quite frankly, I can't picture a much better party than that. So what the hell? .