On Groundhog Day
Happy Groundhog Day to you and yours. Verily, this is the butt-crack of American holidays.Have you considered how this day might be construed by brand new immigrants to the good ol' USA?
Imagine the young man just arrived from some Eastern European country. All he knows of America is power: economics, military, freedom, and technology.
Imagine he gets off the plane (who arrives by boat except the Cubans?) and buys a copy of USA Today to discover it is Groundhog Day. Huh? This rich nation of technology leaves weather prediction to an overgrown rat that we pull out of a dark hole on one arbitrary day of the year. I wouldn't blame him for thinking it odd. I think it is odd. April Fool's Day makes more sense.
