I thought this would be an item about American Indians refusing to celebrate Thanksgiving (one in our paper yesterday). This mornings editorial column speculates that we'll soon see a legal challenge to Thanskgiving because it involves thanking God and governmental bodies can't recognize that. I fear the writer may have something. (Michael Newdow, call your office!)
Sandra Miesel | 11.26.03 - 12:51 pm | #

I think we'll see efforts to have Thanksgiving transformed into a "celebrating ourselves celebrating ourselves" holidays. Here's a particularly weird attempt:

Thanksgiving: An American Celebration of the Creation of Wealth
Kevin Jones | Homepage | 11.26.03 - 1:04 pm | #

Canadians have their national feast of thanksgiving on October 10th. I rather think we could abolish samain and have it on the 31st of October. Protestants can celebrate the Reformation and Catholics (and Protestants) can celebrate the eve of all Saints.

It also corresponds with the end of harvest better in this part of the world.
Steve | 11.26.03 - 6:42 pm | #

Do you take off Friday as well- or just Thursday?
Down our neck of the woods, we wouldn't dare have a Thursday holiday only - it would be a long weekend - as when ANZAC day falls on Thursday or Tuesday, there is an automatic 4 day weekend.
Don (Kiwi) | 11.26.03 - 7:03 pm | #

Most of us get -- or take -- Friday off, but it depends on the job.
Mary | 11.26.03 - 8:51 pm | #

This column is practically identical to a recent George F. Will column. The wording is different, but paragraph for pargraph, the information is almost exactly the same. The quotes from John Quincy Adams and Governor Roberts of Texas, the mention of how Johnson moved the date to December and Grant put it back in November, the anecdote about the Texas/ Texas A & M football game, and, of course, the central tales of Sarah Josepha Hale and FDR -all are in both columns. Who plagiarized from whom?
James Kabala | 11.30.03 - 7:46 pm | #