Should today be a national holiday? It’s the birthday of a famous American, but it’s not officially celebrated.
When I was a child, we got a couple of days off school in February: the 12th and the 22nd. I don’t know if it was like that everywhere, but it was in the part of southeast Georgia where I grew up.
Now, to be sure, the fact that February 12 is the anniversary of the founding of Georgia — Georgia Day — might have contributed to that. But, today, the state no longer celebrates the anniversary of its founding, as evident by the governor’s official list of State Holidays for 2013.
But, there’s still that birthday to consider.
Now, the American whose birthday it is, isn’t that big of a hero in Georgia. Not historically, anyway. That doesn’t mean that Georgia has been right in ignoring this American. But, I leave it to you: should states, or even the federal government, recognize today as a holiday in honor of this American?
Should we, as a nation, celebrate the birthday of Joe Don Baker?
Why, if he’d just take that big stick of his into D.C. and crack some heads with it, then yes. Yes, we should.
Absolutely, if only for making possible the “Mitchell” episode of MST3K.
What Harvey said.
Mitchell! Wockacha wockacha wockacha wockacha
I am waiting for President’s Day to be renamed “In Praise of his Holiness Allah Obama Ackbar May Name Be Praised Forever Day”.
Georgia Day… that’s racistismus.
I’d like to Joe Don Baker saunter in congess tonight with his big stick. Just make sure his big stick does not have a thumbhole stock.
“Presidents Day?” There’s no such thing.
It’s Charles Darwin’s birthday today, also; I was guessing that he was the one who wasn’t “that big of a hero in Georgia”.
My birthday! Mine!!!!!