Survival Arts

Why "Thanksgiving" doesn't thrill me with reverence

I'm not a religious person, so I haven't jumped on the prayer bandwagon today. I do appreciate the fact that Thanksgiving does mark the ass-saving of a number of starving Pilgrim colonists, who took a couple of years - and failed harvests - to "get it" about farming in common: it doesn't work.

I was not thrilled to find out that the Proclamation of Thanksgiving was given by America's Lenin, Abraham Lincoln, either.