Soft Targets

How 'bout it? Two holidays within a week. Saturday we had a big fat valentine's day, which was a resounding success, and today which is President's Day.  Things seem to be in full swing today, except for the post office and a few other state and federal authorities. 

I am not 100% sure what one should do for president's day, seeing as though there has been quite a few of them, and I have only been alive for 5 so far. I am not exactly clear how some of the previous administrations went.  As a child of public school, I am a little foggy on most of them except for the old standbys. (Can someone fill me in on Chester "A." Arthur?)

In any event, unless they were on money or Mount Rushmore, most Americans lose track of a lot of presidential stuff. The filler presidents are not discussed with any real degree of detail.  I like to call them the beard guys. The ones between Lincoln and about 1910. The problem is, that a lot of these presidents were pretty uninspiring or bland, and if an administration did not have a real war or serious scandal, no one really gives a damp shit about it.  The beard guys really get lost in the shuffle.  

On another hand, I am all for bringing back presidential facial hair. The last president to have a beard, stache or goatee, or sideburns for that matter was William Howard Taft, who had a particularly opulent and luxurious handlebar moustache.