Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Holidays at U.S. Parks: Usurped by Partisan Ideology

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In the United States, Christmas is the last official holiday of the calendar-year, and Thanksgiving is the penultimate holiday. New Year’s D...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Enjoy Your Holiday: On the Weaponization of Kindness

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In Europe, the word holiday can refer to what in America is called a vacation, which of course can occur whether or not the vacation falls o...
Monday, October 14, 2024

October 12th: Happy Vikings Day!

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I contend that the ideological war being waged in the United States by the 2010s over whether October 12 th   should be “Indigenous People’s...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning: On the Instinctual Urge of Resentment

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 According to CNN’s website, the “sobering truth about the harvest feast that inspired Thanksgiving” is is the fact that colonists killed In...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Black Friday: An American Holiday

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For a long time, I didn't understand why the Friday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. would be called Black Friday. Why associate darkness...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Thanksgiving Elipsed by Christmas: Will the Offending Businesses Go Extinct?

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Even as the business-sourced encroachment of Christmas had all but eclipsed the American holiday of Thanksgiving in 2013 on account of the ...

On the History of Thanksgiving: Challenging Assumptions

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We humans are so used to living in our subjectivity that we hardly notice it or the effect it has on us. In particular, we are hardly abl...