Today is May 1, "May Day," which is celebrated as the world's Labor Day except in the US. When the Communists were in power in the old Soviet state and elsewhere, May Day was celebrated by those nations as if they were the only people who worked for a living. In the US May first is also known as Legal Day or Law Day.

In my most recent marriage, May first was a birthday, no longer celebrated. Mine is next Tuesday and I only "celebrate" it by consuming mass quantities of Mexican food and margaritas. That's because my birthday always falls on the BIG Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo.

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You need not be afraid to eat Mexican food or pork, folks. It has no connection with the plague that is going around. But you should wash your hands before and after dining, shaking hands, touching door knobs or shopping cart handles, using that grocery store's pen to sign your credit card slip, or touching anyone or anything.

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The schools were closed in some places due to the flu. Now here's what gets my goat: The children who did not go to their schools went to malls, parks and playgrounds where they mingled and breathed the same air, touched and otherwise did the same things they would have done at school.

Don't they have classes at universities that teach school administrators how to reason and think?

In the meantime, the news pundits are criticizing VP Biden for saying that nobody should get on a plane or a subway during this flu pandemic.

Joe Biden was absolutely right.

Once again, blame the messenger, and ignore the message.