Well, another Memorial Day is here, and once again those of us who gripe about such things can start gnashing our teeth over the fact that the reason for the holiday has been overwhelmed by the commercialism surrounding the holiday.

Given what’s happened to Christmas and Easter and the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving and a few others, though, you’d think we’d be used to it by now. Michael Liebowitz over at Soflow ponders: “The cynical part of me wonders how long it will take for someone to assign a name to 9/11, like ‘Patriotism Day,’ then move it to whatever the closest Monday is to 9/11. We’ll commemorate the tragedy of that day by saving big bucks on a foreign car.” I think he’s absolutely right about that; it’ll happen in time, and it probably won’t take very long.

I think I’ll spend the day buying nothing and thinking a bit about my dad.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 29th, 2006 at 8:44 am and is filed under This 'n' That.