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Comments on: It’s A Holiday https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/10/12/its-a-holiday/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/10/12/its-a-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-49332 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:46:31 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11665#comment-49332 If you aren’t a Federal employee, you may not even get the day off. It isn’t a Florida holiday, even though we were a Spanish colony.

It is probable that the Vikings landed 500 years earlier on the Canadian coast, but the winds aren’t favorable for that voyage, as they are prevailing westerlies in the North Atlantic. You have to drop a long way to the South to pick up the easterly flow that makes the trip easy. The Vikings had to put in a lot of time on the oars to get to Iceland and Greenland.

I think that it is more than slightly abusive to keep calling people and places lost, or undiscovered just because we didn’t know about them. The same goes for talking about groups as primitives or savages, when they can obviously live in an environment that would kill your average university professor.

Going to survival school alters your perception of a lot of things, like the importance of knowing what Emmanuel Kant thought about the Book of Job, as compared to what can I eat that won’t kill me in this bloody jungle.

]]> By: Comrade Kevin https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/10/12/its-a-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-49331 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:04:53 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11665#comment-49331 Columbus Day is one of those holidays that aren’t very PC anymore, but yet no one has any problem with the opportunity to take a day off.

Thanks for the lesson about historical ironies. 🙂

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