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Popular Culture |
1 December 2003
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The Unsullied Holiday of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is not a holiday that the marketing people of America have screwed up the way they wrecked Washington and Lincoln's birthdays, turned Labor Day into TV season kick-off week-end, and taken the X out of Xmas. Instead, it is the one day in the year that Americans try to reflect on the good things in their lives and quit trying to better themselves by making unnecessary purchases. It is spiritual without being religiously exclusionary. It would qualify as the nation's best invention, except Canada set one up in October long before the pilgrim-based one got started in the US. For more, click here.
England's Rugby World Cup Glory
Dan Gledhill of the Independent newspaper called it "an achievement by an England sporting team unrivalled since that Wembley afternoon 37 years ago." He further noted that Martin Johnson had earned the rarest of titles for an Englishman, a World Cup winning captain. When the English (not British) rugby side disembarked from British Airways flight 106 last Tuesday, they came home as world champions. Moreover, they and their fans came home with a newly polished image of Englishmen abroad. Click here to read on.