Juneteenth
Jun. 22nd, 2021 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenAs a child, I don’t believe that I ever heard of Juneteenth, but at some point I read a newspaper article about it, maybe while I was a graduate student in Texas (1985-1987). I have heard more about it since, but I never, until a few days ago, expected what I had first learned about as a local celebration among blacks in Texas made a federal holiday. I would just as soon not have it be a holiday, despite my personal laziness.
I was a bit amused at an article in Reason on how the government is screwing up Juneteenth saying, “No one will be too broken up about one fewer day of IRS audits or Department of Labor regulations or whatever it is they do at the Department of Commerce.”
Well, one thing we do at the Department of Commerce is to write Office Actions on patent applications, and now I will collect the same salary for writing not quite so many of them. This does not strike me as the best way to memorialize the emancipation of the slaves, or to set right current injustices.
I was a bit amused at an article in Reason on how the government is screwing up Juneteenth saying, “No one will be too broken up about one fewer day of IRS audits or Department of Labor regulations or whatever it is they do at the Department of Commerce.”
Well, one thing we do at the Department of Commerce is to write Office Actions on patent applications, and now I will collect the same salary for writing not quite so many of them. This does not strike me as the best way to memorialize the emancipation of the slaves, or to set right current injustices.
