Posts Tagged ‘National Holidays’
HOW WAS YOUR VETERAN’S DAY?—A FABLE
After lunch downtown last Tuesday, I took the 1-California bus home. A man across the aisle, seemingly in his mid-thirties muttered, “How was your Veteran’s Day?” I thought he was talking to me, and he looked like a straight-up guy, so I answered, “The usual.” “Sorry,” he said. “I was talking to myself, I guess.…
Read MoreA POST ABOUT NOTHING
The TV classic “Seinfeld” (1990-98) supposedly was a show about nothing. But nothing could be further from the truth. Which links “Seinfeld” to Pope Benedict’s resignation and Presidents’ Day, which seem to be something but are really about nothing. And thus something. Take your average TV show. It’s about something. Cops and criminals, threats to…
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