Thanksgiving Eve

I dare say my most fascist opinion is this: today, the Wednesday immediately before Thanksgiving, should be a workday. In college, my fellow students would consider it a travesty should a professor hold an exam on this day, as it would prohibit them from leaving for the extended weekend a day early. My blood boils at this complaint; can't we simply be thankful for the long weekend itself? Or are we like the roadside beggar, indignant with fifty cents when we could have been given a dollar?

We Americans are a hard-working (or at least long-working) bunch; one could easily argue that we need a few more paid holidays per year. Let's have that debate, by all means. But given the god-awful "shopping holiday" after Thanksgiving (on which everyone should instead observe Buy Nothing Day), this break is long enough. Another personal floating long weekend, where the vacationer doesn't have to fight airport crowds, would be great. In the meantime, get to work!