Philadelphia Freedom
Philadelphia is recognising a George Washington slave who escaped while he lived in the city. Oney Judge was one of nine slaves the Father of Our country brought with him to the nation’s first capitol, and one of two who escaped. Their experiences have been in the news with […]

Founding Follicles
Perhaps your creepiest option to mark President’s Day is in Philadelphia, where they are displaying hair samples of the founding fathers.
The history is sort of dubious, except as an illustration of odd 19th century obsessions.
Enjoy!

False Coin:
Don’t Take This From Ben Stein
A new front in the War On President’s Day! Cuddly Conservative Curmudgeon Ben Stein is trying to mobilize America’s unease at the vagueness of the holiday to somehow make a case against evolution. Let’s watch him go!

“Until the late 1980’s when the generic “President’s Day” became […]

It’s Alive!
As President’s Day morphed into All Presidents, All The Time Day, its just gotten weirder and more unwieldy.
Republicans try to shoehorn Reagan in with fellow February Birthday Boys Washington and Lincoln, while complaining that one day really doesn’t do the lads justice. And lament the passing of glorious days of old when […]

Sadly Lacking
A supporter of adding Ronald Reagan to Mount Rushmore is taking the cargo cult route, a visual version of building the runways so the planes will come.
In the case of Fred J. Eckert it’s make the image and the statue will follow.
“I want to help hurry the inevitable,” vows the former […]