Why don’t we make the two weeks between June 19 (Juneteenth) and July 4 (Independence Day), inclusive, a two-week national holiday for all non-essential workers? No schools, no commerce, no work. The French, for example, have the whole of August off, and our nation is certainly wealthy and prosperous enough to afford a mere two-week holiday, right? (If necessary, I would even be totally willing to give up all our other ad hoc holidays–except Christmas–in exchange for this proposed two-week celebration of freedom.) Are you with me? Either way, I will resume my extended review of legal positivism in the next day or two …
