Screw August!

David Plotz of Slate has a modest proposal: let’s get rid of August.

August is the Mississippi of the calendar. It’s beastly hot and muggy. It has a dismal history. Nothing good ever happens in it. And the United States would be better off without it.

As the owner of a business, I can relate. There’s nobody in town to buy, so really, I should almost close and take a vacation. But since I can’t do that, I say we take August out back to the woodshed and whack it.

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