Every
Day's a Holiday!
 Do
you take Columbus Day seriously? How about
George Washington's birthday,
or
Lincoln's? Is July
4th much more to you than a picnic basket
and some fireworks
by the lake?
Is there
any
way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day that
doesn't involve beer? Meanwhile, Memorial
Day is the perfect time to stop and remember
to buy a new grill for the patio.
And how about
Christmas? We
give it nothing but lip music as a pious
event when we drag out all the pagan bells
and
whistles.
A quick digression: It's
entirely possible that, deep down inside,
the Grinch was probably more pious than
the Whos as he didn't actually object
to their faith... he objected to their consumer-driven
celebration.
Yes, they all held hands in
the town square on "Xmas morning"
(Really? A "Who dimension" Jesus?) and
droned out "Fah-Who Foraze" but they could just
as
easily
have
been
singing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Big
Purple Tottenschnootle" as far as the sacredness
goes. The
fact that most of us faithfully watch HTGSC every
year indicates how casually we treat the
"true meaning" of the holiday.
Digression
over.
Indifference towards national holidays is probably
a good thing. By that I mean, imagine a country
where the population is forced,
perhaps even at
the point of a gun, to celebrate a holiday with all
the emotion and enthusiasm you can muster. Think
Kim Jong-Il's birthday.
This is why I think Martin Luther King
Day is important, because the moment it's
just a backdrop for a sale at Big Boxes
everywhere, whenever we take a day off
without considering its significance,
when we treat the occasion like a complete
joke then we'll know we will have attained
racial
equality
in this country.
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I heard today that the Koch brothers are
intending to spew a billion
dollars worth of right-wing propaganda over
the airwaves in advance of the 2016 presidential
election, paid for with money from no other
source than their personal little piggy
banks. And,
of course, they'll expect to get nothing
in return from all the nice, new congressmen
they'll be buying.
Uh-huh.
Die, you treasonous motherfuckers! Get
a really painful case of cancer or an
infestation of guinea worms in your eyes!
Or something
really vile in the
pancreatic region so that you spend
your last days in insufferable pain or
drifting in the
foggy haze of a morphine drip!
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Some of you may notice that I didn't color
this one. I initially intended to pimp
this
snarky ride but, on second thought, I kinda
like it like this. I'll consider it "art".
=Lefty=
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