Our national emergence, or reflections on "precedent's day"
There's not much in the current configuration of President's Day to recommend it as an honest day of reflection on national leadership. Washington's birthday celebration was hijacked in the late '60s as a mechanism to supposedly provide workers with a three-day weekend, but was really a means to prevent absenteeism and, more importantly to spur retail sales. And sadly, by mashing Washington's and Lincoln's birthday's together, we don't celebrate either one's birthday on the a