Thanksgiving is around the corner. It's too bad that so many people use it as their annual excuse to be decent human beings for a week...if that. It's too bad, too, that the masses don't revolt against the incursion of the Christmas holidays on Thanksgiving. Trees are already up, cash registers are already ringing.
My wife and I tend not to engage in any of traditional activities of the season. We don't see the point. I'd be more engaged if we all dropped the traditional holidays and created our own. We could celebrate the Season of Sanity every November as the electorate throws the worst of politicians out on their ears. We could celebrate the Humanity Holidays six or eight times each year...these would be holidays designed to promote man's humanity toward mankind (and womankind...I would rather create a gender-neutral term....how about humkind?) and give people time off. We need a summertime celebration and holiday, so we could create Watermeloncholy, a time to lounge around by the lake, eating watermelons and talking about the good old days with Uncle Davindra and Aunt Salamonica.
On an entirely different subject, someone close to me suggested that breaking a certain someone's knees and sinking his yacht was an appropriate response to what might have been an act of brazen thievery. As devoted as I am to pacificism [:)], that sounded like an appealing way of dealing with the matter at hand. Do unto others...maybe I should become a real believer, after all.
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