How did tomorrow get to be Columbus Day? (It's still Friday in Denver as I write this.) I thought CC discovered this place on the second Monday in October, anno Domini 1492. (Actually, it was October 12, but that was Old Style, as not even the papists had started messing with the calendar yet at that point.) The calendar my employer supplied me shows Monday as "Columbus Day (observed)", "Thanksgiving Day (Canada)", and "Yom Kippur" (the latter ending, of course, at sundown).

I have no idea what to suggest to AIM and the parade organizers. I would like to see everybody get a little less touchy and a little more willing to overlook those features of other ethnicities that their ethnic sensitivity makes offensive. But then I don't really belong to any ethnic group...

Liland