12/05 - World Soil Day
It is World Soil Day. What can one say, this is borderline fatuous. Industrial agriculture destroys the soil. If we humans wish to have significant amounts of healthy soil remaining, we have to abandon...
View Article12/12 - National Ding-A-Ling Day
It's National Ding-a-Ling Day... I ain't touching it.What else is there? Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts? Not sure about that either, in our perpetual and seemingly increasingly censorious society...
View Article12/19 - Look for an Evergreen Day
Look for an Evergreen Day isn't supposed to be a "Where's Waldo" reprise, but that does seem to depend upon where one lives. Per checkiday.com,Look for an Evergreen Day can be about one of two things....
View Article12/26 - Happy Kwanzaa!
We seem to have survived yet another celebration of any and all of the combined celebrations, festivities and trappings of an ancient Babylonian Sun God, a bunch of later copycat religions whose God...
View Article01/02 - National Science Fiction Day
National Science Fiction Day celebrates, what else, Science Fiction, aka SF. It has also been called sci-fi, but many authors seem to object to that. It is also, it seems, hard to define and it is...
View Article01-09 - National Apricot Day
It's National Apricot Day but why today? Apricots are fine and wonderful, but waaay out of season. So many of these special days have no real connection to the date on which they occur. As near as I...
View Article01/16 - Martin Luther King Junior Day
It's Martin Luther King Junior Day, and what can one say about such a tremendous personage? It has often been said that "you are known by the company you keep" or words to that effect. Maybe, but that...
View Article01/23 is Bounty Day
Pictured above is the HMS Bounty monument at Point Venus, Tahiti. Tahiti was an approved stop for the bounty, but it was the best illustration I could come up with for Bounty Day which is celebrated on...
View Article01/30 - Fred Korematsu Day
It's Fred Korematsu Day and I'm gonna cheat a bit by first posting the opening bit from da wiki and highly suggest people read the full article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Korematsu )Fred...
View Article02/06 - Happy Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day is the national day of New Zealand and the anniversary of the 1840 signing of Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding Document. I should just leave it at that because I am so vastly...
View Article02/13 - Happy World Radio Day
Radio, a five letter word for a ton of things. Radio is, among other things, a chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum Not light, nor microwave radiation nor gamma rays, but related to them all. In fact,...
View Article02/20 - World Day of Social Justice
It's World Day of Social Justice. I almost used a picture of Emiliano Zapata who famously said If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government. This is a UN holiday and...
View Article02/27 - International Polar Bear Day
(Ahem) The Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus is the largest living land predator and the largest living bear species. It is a hypercarnivore, which means that 70% or more of its diet is meat. It has white...
View Article03/06 - The Periodic Table of the Elements
On March 6, 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society. The periodic table is a graphic representation of groupings of chemical elements...
View Article03/13 - L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday
It's L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday. Sure, I could just as easily have used Bobby Rydell or Neal Sedaka, except that it really isn't Bobby Rydell's Birthday and Neal Sedaka never invented a religion. We...
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3/20 - Vernal Equinox, Ostara, Mabon
The Vernal Equinox is the astronomical beginning of spring, when the hours of daylight and the hours of night are approximately equal. The wiccan holiday Ostara celebrates the Vernal (or spring)...
View Article03/27 - International Whiskey Day
Whiskey (or Whisky),from usquebaugh, from uisce is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. It is also the first word in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", but that is a different...
View Article4/3 - Howl Day (unofficial)
Believe it or not, there was a time when the ACLU would rush to the defense of speech, even if, or especially if, it was deemed offensive to or by some person(s), group(s) or government agency or...
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4/10 - Sibling Day (I shit you not)
So, Sibling Day, seems fraught with peril. It would seem that sibling rivalries are as old as siblinghood itself. Whose idea was this anyway? Of course, in my clan it was "we can will and do thump each...
View Article4/17 - World Hemophilia Day
World Hemophilia Day comes to us courtesy of the WFH. Per da wiki:The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with...
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