It’s nowhere near the middle of summer, those pavement and brain-melting days of early August, but ancient tradition demands we lay off the word “solstice” today, so as not to confuse us backward peasants into thinking we displeased some god or goddess of fertility or another, and Winter comes back too soon, so we use …
Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo, just like the crosses, stars and crescents symbolizing other religions. Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! Steadfast believers in …
Can’t say Caesar wasn’t warned by a blind, emaciated street beggar (and those guys are never wrong), but the Dictator for Life of the Roman Republic was one arrogant son of a bitch. Until 44 BCE that is, on THE IDES OF MARCH! “Et tu, Brute?” were Julius Caesar’s last words, referring to his erstwhile buddy Brutus, …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/15/23 – THE IDES OF MARCH! Read More »
Why this holiday doesn’t get an entire season is just the bad luck of falling so close to the Christmas/New Year juggernaut. If this day fell in that holiday-starved stretch of late winter it would be huge, as is only befitting NATIONAL BACON DAY! You know it, you love it, you devour every bit of it …
Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo! Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! They are steadfast believers in disbelief, adherents of non-adherence and practitioners of …
