Make America Scared Again

With Election Day right around the corner from Halloween, it is festively fitting for people around the nation to dress up as the next potential president on the scariest day of the year. Since 1996, Spirit Halloween has accurately predicted who would win the presidency based on sales of presidential candidate masks. For 2020 with social distancing and minimal trick or treating it is hard to see this having the same sample size as the past. 

A latex mask of US President Donald Trump is one of the favorites in the run-up to Halloween celebration this year; even in Mexico.

Does this mean 'The Donald' will be our next president?  You decide...

'Trumpacabra'                   'Creepy Joe'

 'Barackula'               'Hillareficent'

 

Print and cut out your favorite.  Attach to a popsicle stick or tie string to wear. 

 Happy Halloween!

Happy Murderous Internatoinal Pirate Day!

Yesterday was Indigenous Peoples Day, the holiday that celebrates the peoples and cultures who thrived before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the murderous, enslaving explorer who is frequently (and many say incorrectly) credited as the first European to “discover” the Americas. While there is still a federal holiday called Columbus Day, in recent years, the day has been rightly supplanted by Indigenous Peoples Day in order to celebrate the people who already called the Americas home before Columbus's 1492 landfall. (Including here in Cincinnati).

Despite this, Columbus is still championed by many Italian-Americans eager to see themselves as part of the tapestry of U.S. history. But I think we’d be better served lionizing Link Wray, another famous American you've probably never heard of, but who had a huge impact on our American popular culture.

What do you think? Columbus Day? Indigenous People? Link Wray? Your own new holiday?

Should we rename Columbus Ohio?