Happy Holidays

But on a more positive note, today is National Coming Out Day (a holiday to celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their straight allies), a much more worthy holiday than say, Columbus Day (a holiday to celebrate smallpox and genocide). For more information on anti-Columbus events (and the rationale behind them), check out the Transform Columbus Day, or read Howard Zinn's historical essay "Columbus and Western Civilization" (courtesy of Z Magazine, the print edition of which is full of great cartoons).