It is now the 5th day of May in 2020. We remain in the middle of a pandemic and the coming economic depression. Our forefathers went through the same thing going back hundreds of years. It’s just our turn. Yes, it sucks. I’m finding out the Cheers was really funny and I still like to singing “where everybody knows your name”. Today has a lot of interesting options. It’s Cartoonists Day, National Hoagie Day, National Concert Day, National Teacher Day, Poem on Your Pillow Day, Oyster Day and Cinco de Mayo, or as we called it in Detroit, Cinco de Drinko. The best hoagie on the planet can be found in Atlantic City NJ at the White House Sub Shop. Makes me hungry just thinking about it. Moving on. This is the day in 1877 that Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army. This is the day remembered as the Panic of 1893. The Stock market crashed, 600 banks failed, 15,000 companies collapsed and unemployment soared to 25%. On this day in 1916, the US Marines invade Dominican Republic and stay until 1924. If you search on this event, it’s an interesting read. This is the birthday (1818) of the German Philosopher Karl Marx who said, “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” You should remember that in the 1800s the working class had a pretty tough life. This is the day (1921) that Napoleon Bonaparte, dies in exile, officially from stomach cancer but rumors of arsenic poisoning persist. He said, “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” I’m now going to finish my coffee and begin living this day. I would like a White House Sub but that is not going to happen. Ah well. Abide.
