"Why is this still a thing?" John Oliver posited on his show Sunday. Damned good question. I had mail out to be picked up yesterday, and I was getting pretty teed off by 4:30 that the mailman hadn't come around. Oh yea, turned out it was some kind of jerkimo holiday.
Columbus Day? A day for the idiot who got lost on his way to India? The guy who "discovered" a "new" land that was already discovered AND occupied? That guy? We celebrate this hapless Johnny-come-lately? Why, exactly?
Curmudgeons enjoy celebrating mankind's accomplishments as much as the next guy. Idiots stumbling upon unintented things and then ruining them, not so much.
Columbus? A mass murderer second only to the Spanish in Mexico. Hero holiday indeed.
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