Category: other stuff

Celebrate birthdays on the real date

It’s very disrespectful that we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on a Monday regardless of whether or not it’s his birthday. The holiday should be on the actual date which is the 15th. How would you like it if I said to you “I know your birthday is on Thursday but I’m going to celebrate it on Monday because that’s more convenient for me”?

I’m just teasing about the stuff below. I don’t mean it.

We could move July 4th to Mondays if we renamed the holiday to “Independence Day”.

Why don’t we celebrate Christmas on a Monday? We don’t even know if the 25th was his birthday so why not move it?

New Year’s Day presents a real problem. We’re stuck with that one.

Remember EST?

I thought it was a scam. I knew someone who had completed the program so several of us went to her final event which was like a graduation. It was a real hard sell – they tried to persuade you that it started working when you gave them money. I was never intending to participate; I was just curious to see what it was. The tweet by Tom Nichols reminded me of it.

There was a fine parody in the film Semi-Tough.

A great newspaper correction

My father once referred to a popular TV show as “Beavis and Buckwheat”. I’d watch that!

another one:

Maryland is a southern state

A recent poll of Maryland residents showed that the majority think this is a northern state. Obviously, they have never lived in the north. I grew up in New York and suburban Philadelphia. One thing that disqualifies Maryland from being a northern state is there terrible handling of snow. They close schools on many days I know I would have gone to school in New York. Pathetic.

I also think there are a lot more people here with ancestors from the south than from the north. When I interviewed people in the 1970s when I worked for the government, I think I spoke to about 10 times as many people born south of Baltimore than born north of here.

Another reason Maryland is a southern state is that we had Confederate monuments which were recently removed. You didn’t see them up north (except in places like the Gettsyburg battlefield).

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