The end of the year is rife with holidays, from Veterans Day to Thanksgiving, and on through Christmas and New Year's Day. But all is not well in holiday-land. People (one of us anyway) are beginning to reject the idea of a triple holiday honoring veterans, and Thanksgiving is under attack from Sears and others (see yesterday's Tin Lizard).
Now, Christmas is under predictable pressure, as other religions begin to push for having their own religious holidays marked as "official." Muslims seeking no-school days for their religious calendar in Montgomery County, Maryland, are but the tip of an iceberg that - unlike the typical iceberg - won't melt away, but will grow ever larger. It seems entirely fair, yet it's something we obviously can't afford, at least not until robots are doing absolutely everything for us, kids no longer need to learn, and humankind no longer needs to be productive.
It seems an ideal time to revisit the Morning Fog revised holiday plan, which offers a solution for exactly this sort of problem. This idea was too far ahead of its time when first proposed a couple of years ago, but with Republicans and Democrats now looking for something on which they can agree, it may be just the ticket. There's something to like (and dislike) for everyone.
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