Let’s face
it the Fourth of July is a three day holiday and nothing more. Most of the people only have a vague idea
what the holiday is about and nobody cares.
It is a time
to cook and eat outdoors, get drunk and watch fireworks. The theme is red, white and blue and the
flag, which gives color to the party atmosphere.
Half the
people don’t know that July 4 is Independence Day. Their knowledge of the American Revolution
consist of something about taxes, throwing tea in the harbor and beating the
British – Sarah Palin thinks it is when we told the British we had the right to
own guns.
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So as not to
appear so ignorant we should quit the bullshit and quit naming holidays: just
call them days off from work, or spring, summer, fall and winter breaks, or a
reason to party - which is what the Fourth of July is.
Have a happy
summer break.
ye Ol’Buzzard
I posted the Declaration of Independence on facebook..bet no one has ever read it thru and thru...happy fucking saturday, 4th of July.
ReplyDeleteI say we revise the calendar so there's at least one 3-day weekend in every month. We need a few more federal holidays. You know, turn the vernal equinox into a holiday in March, and there has to be something in April we could use (Arbor Day?), maybe Flag Day in June, and then in August they can just make something up..
ReplyDeleteMost people confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution. At some point they apparently stopped teaching civics in U.S. high schools. Either that, or most people really are dumber than rocks.
Canada has pretty much done that. Provinces have inserted their own "___Day" (usually Family Day) in the odd month that didn't have a long weekend.
DeleteI agree: a three day weekend every month - everyone deserves it.
Deletethe Ol'Buzzard