Happy Labor Day, Everybody!

From the Seattle Times:

Just when it seemed the right wing couldn’t get any more divorced from reality around here, a local conservative group has launched a protest against what it sees as a pernicious cultural touchstone.

Labor Day. Yes, bittersweet old Labor Day — the first Monday in September, the holiday that’s been around for generations and is known to most non-ideologically blinkered Americans as an end-of-summer free day honoring all the hard work you put in the rest of the year. But to the Freedom Foundation, a business-backed Olympia think tank, the day is evidence of the power of unions, which to them equals the decline of America. Rather than stoop to taking a union-backed day off, they plan to fight the power by ... working all day Monday instead!

This reminded me of a boss I had in the late 1980s -- when I was working in Longview, Washington -- who refused to close the office on MLK Day due to his intense hatred for Black people. When I asked if the office took that holiday off, his response was, "Hell No! We work twice as hard that day."