Happy Washington's Birthday!

Well, I'll be. For years I've been lamenting that Washington's Birthday got swallowed up into a mushy three-day-weekend Monday called Presidents Day (aka President's Day aka Presidents' Day). I've thought that by including everybody who held the office it more or less honored nobody in particular and, more to the point, nothing in particular. It might be fine for someone who worships government, I guess, or someone who doesn't much care if a President was good or bad as long as he managed to get enough votes to hold office, but for me I thought it was a shame. It was particularly a shame, I thought, because one thing this country could use is more consideration of what made George Washington a great man as well as a remarkable one.

I've been a fool. A sucker! I've fallen for a propaganda campaign. I have my ideas about who is behind the push to lump all the Presidents together and not look at any one of them too closely, but at the moment I don't care to spend my time thinking about them.

As Matthew Spalding points out It’s Still George Washington’s Birthday (Not President’s Day).

No, really. See 2006 Federal Holidays.

Happy Washington's Birthday!

Update: See Happy Washington's Birthday, Take Two for a clarification/correction.