Today is that silliest of all holidays, Martin Luther King Day. Okay, the man had his good points. But does anybody on the planet really believe he’s the one<\/i> American who merits a holiday in his honor (ever since Washington and Lincoln got combined into the drearily homogenized “Presidents Day”)? Ridiculous!<\/p>\n
What makes him so special he should be elevated above Jefferson, Franklin, Thoreau, Washington (Booker T.), Lysander Spooner, Victoria Woodhull, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aaron Copland, Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Hutchinson, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nellie Bly, Malcolm X, Andrew Carnegie, Maria Tallchief, Ayn Rand, and ten thousand potentially honorable others??? Preposterous! <\/p>\n
Still, he did<\/i> have those good points. And one of them was a fearless conviction that bad laws deserve breaking. So in honor of MLK Day, Garry Reed sez break an unjust law today<\/a>. <\/p>\n Okay, true. We all break unjust laws every day, purely by accident. But today, let’s all break one with style and flair and panache.<\/p>\n And if you’re one of those strange people who actually gets today off from work and you’re looking for something to do, here’s a site that’ll keep you disrespectfully occupied for hours: Why Every President Sucks<\/a>. Complete with … um … a song<\/i> for every one of ’em. Don’t have the patience for it myself and it’s not like the songs are undying classics or anything. But if the law you break today involves interesting chemicals, that site might entertain you all day. (I do plan to revisit just to find out what kind of song anybody could write about Millard Fillmore.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is that silliest of all holidays, Martin Luther King Day. Okay, the man had his good points. But does anybody on the planet really believe he’s the one American who merits a holiday in his honor (ever since Washington and Lincoln got combined into the drearily homogenized “Presidents Day”)? Ridiculous! What makes him so special he should be elevated above Jefferson, Franklin, Thoreau, Washington (Booker T.), Lysander Spooner, Victoria Woodhull, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aaron Copland, Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Hutchinson, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Nellie Bly, Malcolm X, Andrew Carnegie, Maria…<\/p>\n