Hi, friends!
I hope your weekend went well!
If you could create a new holiday, what would it be and how would it be observed?
I’d have National Sleep Day. I think you can understand how this should be observed. 🙂
New Holidays [NOT 28/1/24]
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Bow to reality and make Super Bowl Monday a holiday. February could use another day off too.
When I was growing up, I don’t know if it was just my elementary school or what, we didn’t have President’s Day, we had Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday. Both in February.
But the weather in February is so crappy (in the northeast.) Starting around Memorial Day and ending around Halloween should be prime holiday time. That, and the week between Christmas and New Year’s, but I think that’s pretty common, or at least becoming more so.
We are one of the only nations that I know of that doesn’t have a holiday in August. Labor Day comes close, granted, but I’d like something like Italy’s Ferragosto. Theoretically it’s August 15th, but no one just takes one day off, so businesses shut down, cities empty out, citizens flee to the coasts or the mountains. I had a boss (he was also a very good friend) who was Roman-born and every August, around the 6th or 7th, he’d go back to Italy with his family and we wouldn’t see him again until after Labor Day. So civilized.
The Friday after Thanksgiving should be an official holiday.
KICK THE FUCKING FIELD GOAL FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK holiday!
OMFG the Lions deserve to lose and it will be Campbell’s fault for not KICKING THE FUCKING FIELD GOAL FFS!!!!
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Don’t Germans have all of August off? I want that for us.
No, not exactly, but there’s so much vacation time. They have Mitbestimmung. Do you know what that is? It’s where workers and management work together, and not usually in a hostile way, and they come up with mutually acceptable decisions. So I bet lots of Germans elect to take off the entire month of August and some companies might even close down because everyone’s on vacation.
You know what’s sort of weird is that the German university calendar grants two months off, March and April IIRC, and the summer break is very brief. So is the winter break.
This is from Ben Smith’s very media-gossipy Semafor Media:
What the ever-loving fuck is that supposed to mean?
Wills is a Murdoch creature, having done time at News International, the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Co. I just have one question for Jeff Bezos: So obvs you have no interest anymore in WaPo and are positioning to sell it off, and I don’t blame you, you must be hemorrhaging money. Democracy does die in darkness, or whatever your Trump-era slogan is. But you do have a lot of money so whatever you’re losing on WaPo, you could keep it afloat well into the next century. By pulling in this Murdoch Brit, are you trying to mimic The New York Times? Because they pulled in Mark Thompson, former (and controversial and parodic) Director General of the BBC, which is a very political role, despite the Beeb’s claims to be apolitical, just like the NYT claims to print all the news that’s fit to print.
Anyway, Markie Mark moved on (was shoved out the door, one presumes) and is now the CEO of Ancestry.com. Data breaches, data sales—perfect! And then there’s Nick Clegg over at Facebook/Meta, whatever it’s called, who himself does not have a particularly stellar record of accomplishment.
I wonder if the traffic goes both ways. Do British companies hire shifty and incompetent Americans to head their companies? I bet they don’t, having so much home-grown talent to draw on.