Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Keillor on Columbus, Herjulfsson, and Bush

After riffing on the differences between Columbus and the Viking explorers who were really the first Europeans in America, Garrison Keillor proposes "that we change Columbus Day to Bush Day, a cautionary holiday, like Halloween, a day to meditate on the hazards of ambition. We could observe it by going through the basement and garage and throwing out stuff we don't want or need. Also by not mortgaging the house to pay for a vacation, and not yelling at the neighbors, and not assuming that the law is for other people. A day to honor kindness, industriousness and modesty."