Notes On A Federal Holiday

I'm typing this on the third Monday in February.  Waste Management came for the recycling and the trash, but there was no mail in the mailbox.

Oh, right.  It's Presidents Day.

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Seeing it there I'm wondering if it's Presidents Day or Presidents' Day or President's Day.  But that led me to thinking about our current President and so I stopped.  

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I thought about Presidents and how few of them were good people.... it seems.... who knows what we don't know we don't know.... but given what we know, most of them have been scoundrels, in one way or another.  

Great things have been accomplished by dishonorable men.  That is a truth they don't emphasize social studies .... if such a class even exists anymore.  

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My grandkids have Presidents' Recess but the Prince scholars were in school today.  

Don't tell the current Administration,  but they get the last Thursday and Friday of February for La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, or as it's usually called,  Rodeo Week