Comments on: Happy Whatever

By: whig

whig — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:06:33 +0000

Berkeley observed Indigenous Peoples’ Day, FWIW.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:41:21 +0000

I believe the tradition is to watch last year’s Stanley Cup final. The beverage and food choice, as with many things Canadian, is province variable.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:36:33 +0000

Do you celebrate with a Moosehead and Poutine?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:55:23 +0000

They lacked a media rep, Keith, or they would have gotten credit. They also didn’t dress the part. How can you take people seriously who aren’t wearing wool and iron in the Caribbean? Let this be a lesson to people who support open immigration – look what happened to the First Nations.

Hipparchia, I’m sure the “Minute Men” would have a fit about all of the Italian flags in New York City for Columbus Day. It’s almost as bad as the flags of Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:51:54 +0000

free burgers, wolf eggs, and scores of rivers named it's a river, stupid. happy whatever to you, too.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:03:57 +0000

And the forbearers of the First Poeple, who walked over a land bridge 10,500 years ago… but hay, they weren’t White Male Christians so they don’t count. Some things never change.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:33:54 +0000

Of course, the Inuit circle the Arctic, and if you had asked they would have told you about it, anytime in the last 5000 or so years. The Inuit on Greenland knew it was there.

It’s amazing how many place names and major features when translated from their Native American roots end up being “it’s a river, stupid” or “we call them mountains” or “what did you say?”

It’s fairly difficult to “discover” a “new” land when there are millions of people living there.

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:34:31 +0000

And no one ever mentions the fact the the Norsemen probably were here hundreds of years before any of them. We should be called Erika or something.