It’s great that it’s May and all (happy May Day by the way), but everyone’s planned their holiday for the same day like competing parties or something. Today just happens to be:

Labour Day, International Workers’ Day, Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, Beltane for the Celts, National Love Day in the Czech Republic, Loyalty Day, the Ascension, International Sunflower Guerrilla Day, the anniversary of Mission Accomplished, the day Hitler died and the day Digg nearly died.

May Day still plays its biggest roll as a worker’s holiday where, thanks to strikers of the Chicago Haymarket affair, we can gripe about 8 hour work days and use our creativity instead of bombs to fight for less work time (if only the rioters could see us now with our 70% 20% 10% work models and summer Fridays). Of course, protests on the issue of workers’s rights and retaliation still rage on both worldwide and at home (the issue of immigrant workers being a major focus in the US).

But perhaps the most absurd holiday that today happens to be is what George Bush has just declared “Law Day, U.S.A.”

Straight from the mouth of the world’s most law abiding citizen. Makes the English May Day (or Month of Three Milkings in old English) with its Morris dancing and crowning of the May Queen look like the height of reason.

The up side: if you do have a party, chances are everyone will have something to celebrate.