Happy Indigenous People's Day!
 

'Bout time we stopped honoring the monster Cristobal Colon and the inception of the American genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples'_Day

It is still a Federal holiday so I am off with pay.

National Self-Loathing Day!!! Yippee.

You have a wry sense of humor.

Not at all.

On the other hand, the glorification of what Columbus did, and what he inspired, is pretty fucking loathsome.

Only in America is a guy honored for screwing up by going in the wrong direction.
So I am all for Happy whatever day and am taking the day off.

Did the Warshington Foreskins lose again? :D

They did, but took the undefeated Falcons into overtime. I'm starting to pay a little attention to them now that the self-promoting malcontent of a QB (RGIII) has been benched.

Nobody's glorifying anything. They're simply taking a day off. With the exception of July 4th, all of our secular holidays are pretty much nothing more than a day off.

As for what Columbus did, he did pretty much what all European colonizing powers did. Morever, holding his behavior over 5 centuries ago to 21st century standards is a bit disingenuous, if not self-loathing.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...htmlstory.html

California bans the use of 'Redskins' in school sports. Racist morons moan.